They are tar gzipped files. I do not know if there is a limit. If there is a very large.
On Wednesday, 21 March 2012 09:20:12 UTC-5, Marco Tulio wrote: > > Hi, > > Packages are a really cool feature. > They allow you to backup your application (including all the tables, > views, controllers, and also static files, uploads etc). > > I made an application that has some static maps (png images), and also > made a few pdf files available for download. > > What happens is that my application itself is really small. > > But the static files (pdf) and the images that I made available (when I > created an "upload" field) make the size of the > package created really large (about 80Mb). > > And now when I try to backup my app, web2py fails on creating the > package. Although it doesn't say it, I do believe it's about the size of the > package itself. > > So, first question is : is there a limit for the size of the package? > > If so, how we deal with applications that'll need to use lots of images? > > Thanks in advanced. > > > > -- > []'s > Marco Tulio >
