Re: [BackupPC-users] Download file directly from browse fails...

[Joe K. <kr...@ni...>]

Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Hi and thanks for reply.
> 
>>> I'm trying to get a backup of a file.
>>>
>>> It's size is about 12 GB.
>>> I try to download it directly from Browse Backup, but the first time
>>> download freeze at about 3,99 GB, and the second time at about 2,76
>>> GB.
>>>
>>> Maybe there's a timeout for the direct downloading?
>>>
>>> I'm going to try also to "restore" that file by:
>>> 1. picking it in the Browse Backup
>>> 2. click on "Restore Selected Files"
>>> 3. choose the zip level compression and download the .zip file.
> 
> Also trying to restore that file choosing to download the zip file
> does not work.
> Download in this way go at 1kb/s.
> 
>> For a restore that large I'd use the command line interface, just to
>> make sure a browser timeout won't be an issue.
> 
> Browser timeout shouldn't be an issue (after only 3,99 GB... - i'm
> thinking at the Ubuntu 4,4 GB DVD .iso image downloaded from web).
> 
>> You can use BackupPC_tarCreate as your BackupPC user to create
>>  a tar archive of the files you want to restore.
> 
> Well, the restore must be done by a Windows user.
> The restore i'm talking about is of one single file of big size (about 12 GB).
> Backup ot that file works perfectly.
> 
> But download that file -by selecting it in Backup Browse tree or
> creating the zip file- seems to be not possible.
> Any help/tips?
> 
> Regards
> M
Did you check the Apache error logs? Even though you can download a 4.4G
file, there may still be some timeout problems, especially if the server
is under a heavy load. It may be timeout settings for Apache, and not
the browser. (Just guessing)

Hanging at 3,99 makes me wonder if there is some sort of 4G file size
limitation somewhere, but maybe this was just a coincidence.

Joe Krahn