[Box Backup-dev] A new problem with diffing large files?

Ben Summers boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Wed Feb 15 09:17:26 GMT 2006


On 15 Feb 2006, at 01:35, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> How did you create your test file? Is it very compressible?
>
> It took about an hour to upload. Perhaps during the upload itself  
> (after the diffing has finished) no data was sent for a long time,  
> because Box was busy compressing it, and the link timed out?

The data in each block is only compressed and encrypted just before  
it's required for sending to the server. Block sizes are small enough  
for this not to be a worry.

Ben








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