[Box Backup] Feature request - for lousy connections

[Florian Eyben]

Hi Achim,

Achim schrieb:
> Hello Chris:
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:20:05 +0200 (CEST), Chris Wilson <chris at qwirx.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> Then the time taken to scan is the problem, not the downloading and 
>> updating of file or directory data.
>>
>> Scanning a few thousand files should only take a few seconds. Even a 
>> hundred thousand should take tens of minutes. I'm curious why it takes 
>> five hours.
>>     
>
> I have been using the StoreObjectInfoFile setting in the past:
>
> # Uncomment the StoreObjectInfoFile to enable the experimental archiving
> # of the daemon's state (including client store marker and configuration)
> # between backup runs. This saves time and increases efficiency when
> # bbackupd is frequently stopped and started, since it removes the need
> # to rescan all directories on the remote server. However, it is new and
> # not yet heavily tested, so use with caution.
> StoreObjectInfoFile = $bbworkdir/bbackupd.state
>
> and was wondering how that fits in here. 
>
>   
This sound exactly like the feature I was looking for. Do you know from 
what version / svn rev. on this available? I guess it's not in 0.11rc2...
> In addition, I remember having seen resumable uploads somewhere in
> connection with StoreObjectInfoFile for the following scenario:
>
> 1. bbackupd starts upload of 1,5GB HD video file to server (Windows is
> limited to 2GB [1])
> 2. Backup gets interrupted somewhere during the process (user shuts down
> computer, moves into different WLAN network, ...)
> 3. Will bbackupd restart the upload from where it left of (for instance at
> 1GB, leaving only 0,5 GB left to transfer), or from the beginning?
>   
This (3.) might also be useful, for exactly this scenario.


Florian.
> Thanks, Achim
>
> [1] <http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/ticket/14>
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