On Apr 20 2015, Hans Reinders <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When using s3ql for backup purpose of files (movies) with size of 1 - 2 GB, 
> is it possible / advisable to increase the max-obj-size to a very high 
> value (say 1GB)?

Possible yes. Advisable I'm not sure.

> Because it will be only for backing up, the download 
> granularity argument isn't the case. It also seems to me deduplication will 
> not be an argument to use the default max-obj-size of 10MB.

Why not?

> Main reason for this question is the fact that a TB or more of this kind of 
> files results in hundreds of thousands of objects with the default 
> max-obj-size of 10MB.

Why is this an issue?

> The backend used will be OpenStack Swift (Hubic).

Are you planning to use the experimental patches from
https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql/issue/132/, or do you have a method
to make it work out of the box?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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