[Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

[Nick Knight]

Hello Gary,

I found the comments referring to large files (>2GB) in one of the
messages - I did find it a little strange as I thought this was fixed
when I worked on it! I may have mis-read.

Yes - block caching is what I had in mind, not sure what everyone else
thoughts on this is, I definitely have seen issues with not having it.

I noticed it is either VS or the ming compiler - my understanding was
the ming compiler was that it is not that much different from cygwin.

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk
[mailto:boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk] On Behalf Of G.
Sent: 19 July 2006 15:54
To: boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

Nick,

> large files and locking problems.

Locking problems are exactly as they used to be, however, I am not sure
what large file problem
you are referring to. I am currently running Chris' modified Win32 .10
tree with a lot of large
files, and have no problems so far.

> integrate Shadow Coy Services. I had a quick look at bacula, they have

Yes, Shadow Copy services would be definitely useful and the way to go
under Win32.

> another issue I have noticed is with the time taken to upload large
> files, if you are behind an ADSL connection, and there is a very good
> chance that the connection would be dropped box at the moment simply
> starts again, are there any ideas around this?

No way around this since the server is atomic, unless we implement some
kind of block caching with
upload resume.

> Can someone point me in the direction to the latest sources, so I can
> have a play; also is visual studio the preferred method for building -
> or other?

I think Chris' is the most advanced and functional Win32 version, but he
does not build with
VS2K5. It would be useful to standardize the build and test environment
for Win32 Box.

Gary


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