Re: [Duplicity-talk] S3 costs for PUT requests

[edgar . soldin]

right.. and although it's documented as
 --max_blocksize 
it actually is
 --max-blocksize 
. manpage still needs to be fixed on that.

..ede/duply.net

On 28.11.2014 15:00, Cláudio Gil wrote:
> The actual parameter is --volsize, for example --volsize=25M. The
> --max_blocksize controls how files are split into chunks, when determining
> what has changed and needs to be added to the tar files.
> 
> 2014-11-28 13:57 GMT+00:00 Duplicity Mailing List <
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>> On 28/11/14 13:46, Jon Beyer wrote:
>>> Hi there, I'm interested in using Duplicity, but I have a server with
>>> a lot of small files.  Does each file map to a PUT request, or are
>>> multiple files streamlined into a single PUT request?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jon
>>
>> Duplicity archives files into tar files before encrypting them, by
>> default these tar files are ~25MB/per, you can however change this. I'm
>> not sure the exact command, but, I think it might be --max_blocksize
>> (Note:- never tried it myself, see manpage for more info).
>>
>> Duplicity also uploads manafest and signature files (Rdiff) which are
>> relatively small most of the time, I'm not sure how it deals with those
>> as I've never used the S3 backend.
>>
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