Re: [Duplicity-talk] 0.4.3.RC7 Ready for Test

[Kenneth Loafman]

Nicolas Aspert wrote:
> Hello
>
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > Please give this one a good exercise.  I'm not getting much feedback, so
> > would like to hear how it goes, both good and bad.  We especially need
> > to test the hsi, s3+http, and webdav protocols.
>
> 0.4.3-rc6 works fine (ftp backend).
> I'll try 0.4.3-rc7 to see the improvements.
>
> > Patch 6032 - Alexander Zangerl <address@hidden>:
> > a new feature patch: i've recently gotten annoyed with having
> > gazillions of 5mb files and therefore added a --volsize option to
> > allow the user setting the chunk size. the patch is simple and
> > contains a manpage update as well.
>
> I'm very interested in the above feature. I suspect it could improves
> performance greatly (esp. when doing a full backup of my > 100GB data)
>
> Can I change the chunk size for the next incremental backup (i.e. I
> would have incrementals with different chunk sizes) or is it better to
> wait for the next full backup ?

You should be able to change it now.  I would not suggest too large a 
chunk size since the processing may take too long and cause timeouts if 
you're using FTP, but even that would work because we retry immediately.

...Ken