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Re: [EP-tech] Datafiles size limit of 10 GB

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Hi Angeliki,

We have had successful uploads of files of up to 50GB in the past,
though we now impose an artificial limit of 30GB.

One thing to be aware of: in our experience at least, uploaded files
are saved into the server's /tmp directory before being copied into the
documents directory. So even if the documents directory is on a
separate drive with plenty of space, the upload will fail if there
isn't enough room left in /tmp. And by default the copy in /tmp will
persist until the next reboot, so several large uploads in a row can
cause problems.

Best wishes,
Alex.

On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 11:36 +0100, David R Newman via Eprints-tech
wrote:
> I don't know if web browsers have built in upload limits anymore but
> if they do I would not be surprised if 10GB was a limit they may have
> in place.  So if you still cannot upload large files it may be worth
> investigating if it is due to your web browser.  However, if the
> upload limit is not restricted by the setting of max_size, I would
> not be surprised if the upload did fail at some point because such a
> large file has more opporunity due to network and other issues.
> There is also a small possibility that 10GB leads to some integer
> overflow somewhere.  It may be in the Javascript in
> 88_uploadmethod_file.js but I am not aware of this being an issue but
> I have not tried to upload files over 2-3GB.
>
> On 18/10/2021 09:58, AndrikAZ--- via Eprints-tech wrote:
> > In our Ubira eData repository, we have a limit on the uploaded
> > datasets of 10 GB per record. There are cases though, with much
> > larger datasets that have to be deposited in a single record. Would
> > it be possible to exceed this 10 GB limit?
> >
> > Any recommendation will be very appreciated.

--
Alex Ball
Research Data Librarian (Systems)
University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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