[Box Backup] Restore & Compare Issue ** UPDATE **

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Matt,

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Chris Wilson wrote:

> I've been able to restore a single 3GB file from the server using the 
> "get" command. I verified that the md5 checksum matched the original.
>
> There is still a problem somewhere in the backup protocol, because the 
> bbackupquery client craps out after restoring or comparing the file, 
> with a protocol error. I'm still working on this one, but it's slow 
> going because it takes so long to download the file each time.

I think I've fixed the remaining problems with quick and full compare, and 
restore, in my tree (http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/svn/box/chris/merge/). I 
would greatly appreciate your help in testing that this is the case.

Please note that there was a bug in bbackupd which resulted in it choosing 
an invalid block size for the upload of large files. The files can be 
restored, but not compared, because an assertion check fails in the 
compare command with this block size.

The bug is fixed in my tree, but you will need to upload the file again 
before the new block size will take effect. If you need to restore an 
older version of the file (with the invalid block size) for some reason, I 
can supply a patch which will increase the maximum block size to enable 
you to do so.

Cheers, Chris.
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