[Box Backup] Large accounts
Ben Summers
boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Oct 19 21:52:00 BST 2004
On 19 Oct 2004, at 21:39, Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
> Maybe I'm on the wrong mailing list.
> Would Box Backup be able to Backup an entire data server 120GB + ?
Yes, this isn't a problem at all. In fact, the theoretical limit is
many Tb. All sizes are represented by 64 bit integers, so there's no
4Gb limit anywhere. Additionally, store size is measured in blocks
rather than bytes so that means 64 bits can represent a huge amount of
data.
I think it's a compiler bug I'm trying to trace, and it just shows
itself as a the size of the store being repeatedly "corrected". 64 bit
arithmetic is not trivial for compilers to output on 32 bit machines!
Thanks,
Ben
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