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alessandrozanini
New member | Level 1
2 days 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
6 hours ago

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. 

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