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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-02 15:51:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-02 15:51:58 -0400 |
| commit | 81b339034e8871f211ede2cf3bdb7319ad16caed (patch) | |
| tree | 8fe89688fc4c224958bb822c9dcbd2cf434c8a4b /doc | |
| parent | 0ddf8152ce1353bbbcd7c87c3f67063b4aed892b (diff) | |
S3: support chunking
The assistant defaults to 1MiB chunk size for new S3 special remotes.
Which will work around a couple of bugs:
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/S3_memory_leaks/
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/S3_upload_not_using_multipart/
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/special_remotes/S3.mdwn | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tips/using_Amazon_S3.mdwn | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/S3.mdwn b/doc/special_remotes/S3.mdwn index 5291a4eb6..fe46948b3 100644 --- a/doc/special_remotes/S3.mdwn +++ b/doc/special_remotes/S3.mdwn @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ the S3 remote. * `encryption` - One of "none", "hybrid", "shared", or "pubkey". See [[encryption]]. +* `chunk` - Enables [[chunking]] when storing large files. + `chunk=1MiB` is a good starting point for chunking. + * `keyid` - Specifies the gpg key to use for [[encryption]]. * `embedcreds` - Optional. Set to "yes" embed the login credentials inside diff --git a/doc/tips/using_Amazon_S3.mdwn b/doc/tips/using_Amazon_S3.mdwn index 0c68c7387..ede3f952f 100644 --- a/doc/tips/using_Amazon_S3.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/using_Amazon_S3.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ like "2512E3C7" Next, create the S3 remote, and describe it. - # git annex initremote cloud type=S3 keyid=2512E3C7 + # git annex initremote cloud type=S3 chunk=1MiB keyid=2512E3C7 initremote cloud (encryption setup with gpg key C910D9222512E3C7) (checking bucket) (creating bucket in US) (gpg) ok # git annex describe cloud "at Amazon's US datacenter" describe cloud ok |