Set up fixed chunk sizes with Web UI

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#1

Hello,

I want to backup my Virtual Machines. Before the Web UI, I used the old GUI and CLI. I used the CLI to initiate a storage with fixed min, max, average chunks sizes of 1MB as recommended here in the forum. With the old GUI, I would then select the initiated repository and then a manage my backups, restores, and prunes with the old GUI. It worked well. I especially liked using the old GUI in the restore process.

Now with the new Web UI, I understand from this forum it is not possible to import repositories initial with the CLI. I tried to set up a storage and backup with the Web UI using fixed chunks sizes but could not see how or where to put in the parameters.

So my Question: How do I set up a storage and backup with fixed chunks sizes with the WEB UI (or import CLI initiated settings) so I can back up my Virtual machines.

Win10 Pro x64, backup to local storage external drive.

Thanks

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#2

The new Web UI won’t import settings from the repositories but it doesn’t mean you can’t (quite quickly) set them up again - with the same repository localtion, repository IDs and filters etc… Basically, you can reuse your existing fixed-size chunk storage for VMs.

Or, if you want to set up a new storage, use the CLI - specifying your chunk size parameters - and once that’s set up, the Web UI can be configured to use the same repository and storage for it.

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#3

The Web UI doesn’t support creating a fixed-size chunk storage yet. For now, you can use the CLI to create such a storage and then add it in the Web UI.

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#4

Thank you both for you answers
I set it up as suggested with CLI and have it now in the Web UI.

I set the fixed chunks with 1M, but I noticed that most the chunks sizes are less then 1M. None are larger then 1M and some are equal to 1M. I would have thougth that that nearly all the chunks should be equal to 1M.

How can I check that the configuration is correct. As it is encrypted I can not read the contents, and the duplicacy check and list commands only seem to check the files or chunks and not the configuration.

Thanks

#5

The chunking algorithm will chop up the source files into 1M chunks THEN compress and encrypt that data - that’s why you end up with smaller resulting chunks.

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