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alessandrozanini
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2 years ago

I find the dbxcli slow when it comes to the chunk file sizes.

unfortunately for big files I find the dbxcli to be really slow due to the very small default chunk size, for which unfortunately there is no option atm. has the development of dbxcli stopped for goo...
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alessandrozanini
New member | Level 1
2 years ago

Hi,

I have tried the dbxcli both on a Windows 11 machine as well as on a Windows Server and I am trying to upload SQL databases which can be very big, up to 80 GBs.

There is no strange behaviour, just very slow upload, I presume the standard chunk size is 1024kb so when you are dealing with massive files then the upload time is unfortunately not acceptable for me.

I have also tried with a different command line client (PneumaticTubes= and although with that client you can specify the chunk size, it has a limitation of max 2GB per file. But at least the upload speed is good there until the process terminates after having transferred 2GB.

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