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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 good or can we hope for a new version with at least the possibility to set the chuck size?

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Megan

Hey @alessandrozaninithanks for posting here!

I'd love to hear some additional details in regards to this, and exactly what's happening on your end.

What OS do you use on your end, and what exactly is the behavior there?

Also, what file size are we talking about? The more info I have, the better.

Keep me posted!

alessandrozanini

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.

alessandrozanini

Hi I did send a reply but it is not showing in here.. how come?

Anyway, I wrote in my reply that I have tried dbxcli on both a Windows 11 as well as on Windows Server 2022.
I need to upload very large SQL databases, as big as 80-90 GBs so considering that dbxcli probably uses a 1024kb chunk size, this takes an extremely long time to upload, and for me (us) this is not feasible.
I have tried a different command line client (PneumaticTubes) which has the possibility to set a the chunk size and the upload is much much faster, although stopping after having transferred 2GB due to the client itself limitation.

So if we could set a chunk size in dbxcli it will vastly increase the upload speed.

alessandrozanini

Hi, I have left two replies in the last days but none were published, ho w come?

We use Windows 11 as well as Windows Server 2022 and uploading large SQL databases, up to 100gb in size.
With a very small chunk size it takes forever to upload such big files.
I have tried a different cli client which allows to set the chunk size and the upload is as fast as expected, although that software is limited to file of max 2gb.
Can the chunk size option be added to dbxcli?

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