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Re: [Duplicity-talk] --max-blocksize?
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Remy van Elst |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] --max-blocksize? |
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Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:36:43 +0200 |
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Hello Ken,
Thank you for the explanation! I understand time is a precious thing
hard to devide, so don't worry too much about it.
On 10/19/14 18:05, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Remy,
>
> Sorry about not getting back to you sooner...
>
> max_blocksize determines the size of the block examined for changes
> during the diff process. For files < 1MB the blocksize is a constant of
> 512. For files over 1MB the size is given by:
>
> file_blocksize = int((file_len / (2000 * 512)) * 512)
> return min(file_blocksize, globals.max_blocksize)
>
> where globals.max_blocksize is defaulted to 2048. If you specify a
> larger max_blocksize, your difftar files will be larger, but your sigtar
> files will be smaller. If you specify a smaller max_blocksize, the
> reverse occurs. The --max-blocksize option should be in multiples of 512.
>
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Remy van Elst <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> duplicity --help shows me the following option:
>
> --max-blocksize=number
>
> What does it do and in what unit is the "number"? I can only find a
> launchpad ticket for large files, the man page on the website does not
> list this option. Is there any more info?
>
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