sebcode

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by sebcode 11y ago
Freeze is really meant to be a plain simple file transfer client, although it has some "helper features" like compare mode which shows differences between a vault's inventory and a local folder and the highlighting of duplica
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by sebcode 11y ago
You're welcome :) Yes, Freeze uses multipart uploads with 16 MB chunks. Resuming multipart uploads works chunk-wise, for example when you've uploaded 20 MB and then the connection drops, the upload then continues at chunk number 2
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by sebcode 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I already thought about implementing cost estimate calculation, and that's definitely on the roadmap for an upcoming release.
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by sebcode 11y ago
It's actually not too hard to calculate the storage costs and it's really cheap. I've been using Glacier for backups since the service has been launched. The calculation of the retrieval costs are a bit tricky though. But if
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by sebcode 11y ago
Thanks, that's great feedback. I admit that the app is not as user friendly as it should be, I'll work on that for the upcoming releases.
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by sebcode 11y ago
Freeze has no encryption or compression features built-in, so you are responsible to prepare the data as you want it to be stored on Glacier before you upload it. I don't like built-in encryption features in file transfer or backup app
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by sebcode 11y ago
Arq is a full featured backup solution. Freeze on the other hand is not really meant to be a backup solution, it's rather a file transfer client for Glacier where you get a raw view on your vault's inventories with upload/dow
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