On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 2:58:29 AM UTC+2, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>
> On Apr 20 2015, Hans Reinders <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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 I have the cache on a 2GB tmpfs (mounted in memory), the tests 
failed, and so I have discarded this.

>
> > 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? 
>
 Output of s3ql after 4TB with the default max-obj-size of 10MB:

Directory entries:    18952
Inodes:               18954
Data blocks:          449412
Total data size:      4.23 TB
After de-duplication: 4.23 TB (100.00% of total)
After compression:    4.23 TB (100.00% of total, 100.00% of de-duplicated)
Database size:        62.8 MiB (uncompressed)
Cache usage:          1016 MiB (dirty: 0 bytes)

So deduplication is indeed not happening.

>
> > 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? 
>
Yes, you're right, with the 4TB I am not noticing remarkable slower speeds 
of the filesystem. 

>
> > 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? 
>
I have it working out of the box,  For the OAuth2 authentication I use a 
PHP script HubiC2SwiftGate which I found on the Hubic forums, and has its 
home at https://github.com/oderwat/hubic2swiftgate. With this script it is 
also possible to use tools such as Cyberduck for creating the container.

>
>
> Best, 
> -Nikolaus 
>
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