[Box Backup] restore file >2GB

Matthias Rieber boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Jun 28 10:18:27 BST 2007


Hi Chris,

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Matthias Rieber wrote:
> 
>>> That is normal if you use the SINGLEPROCESS option. In a single
>>> process, we can only handle a single client.
>>
>> Has this option a new behaviour in your branch? With version 0.10 it
>> was possible to connect with many clients and bbackupquery tools at
>> the same time.
> 
> Yes, it is new. I took SINGLEPROCESS to mean exactly that, because it
> helped for debugging. I did not realise that people were using it in
> production as you are.
> 
>> I just need a --do-not-fork-to-background option for the daemontools.
> 
> OK, does anyone have a preference on whether I restore SINGLEPROCESS to
> its old meaning, and add a new option for _really_ only one process :-)
> or add a new option which just doesn't fork into the background, and
> otherwise behaves as normal?

I think it's better to add a new option for that, because SINGLEPROCESS
is not the right name for that.

matthias



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