[Box Backup-dev] blocks

[Ben Summers]

Within a BackupStoreFile, a block is an arbitrarily sized chunk of =20
data, from 1 byte upwards. (You can get 1 byte blocks if you insert 1 =20=

byte within a file and it gets diffed.)

On the server, regarding the storage limits, a block is whatever size =20=

is set in raidfile.conf.

Both are separate concepts, and refer to completely different things =20
which aren't used together.

Ben





On 26 Jul 2006, at 14:33, Nick Knight wrote:

> Hello all,
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> Can someone spare a minute and provide me with a small tutorial on =20
> what a block under box backup is.
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> I am trying to figure out new portions of code to me, and It looks =20
> like the windows version is calculating them wrongly but not sure why.
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> It appears that the client decides on the block size for a given =20
> file, I always thought it was fixed as the server allocates a =20
> number of blocks for an account=85
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> Thanks
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> Nick
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