| Delta sync support? | jtc9242 | 4/29/12 7:18 AM | Hey, just a quick one here but I'm just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the lack of delta-sync support? How are people getting around this, and is it an expected feature for some point in the near future? Some posts about the effects of this a |
| Re: Delta sync support? | danmo | 4/29/12 8:30 AM | I dont really see this happening real soon - delta syncs will completely break the ability to do contextual searching from the Google Drive (web). Google would have to re-constitute every file upon sync (turn the deltas into full files). This would |
| Re: Delta sync support? | jtc9242 | 4/29/12 9:39 AM | Ah I guess. Having said that though, that shouldn't stop them from fixing the issue of it redownloading everything. Fair enough delta sync might not be feasible within files, but they have no reason not to incorporate scanning to check if files are a |
| Re: Delta sync support? | freakkk | 4/29/12 12:22 PM | So far I am loving google drive, but having delta file syncs (rsync style) is what I'm hoping for to change the most. I am not interested in having google drive maintain a revision history for externally created and sync'd files; only for gdocs and g |
| Re: Delta sync support? | SyP | 5/2/12 5:43 AM | Huh, I couldn't believe Google Drive doesn't have differential upload, so I captured a network traffic while changing the ID3 tag of a 100 MB file, and it's true, Google Data created ~10 connections to http://large-uploads.l.google.com and uploaded the whol |
| Re: Delta sync support? | shoebaka | 5/9/12 1:28 AM | I am in the process to bring a small company in the cloud, and this ia a real deal braker. When users share documents, and one user changes a meta tag of a 1GB+ video or adds a small text document to a truecrypt-container, the whole file needs to be |
| Re: Delta sync support? | A1ex V | 5/24/12 7:05 PM | Renaming a file using web interface would cause it to be re-downloaded. This is a shocker. Forget about delta syncs, it is not even doing that on file level. :( Google I hope it is on top of your todo list. In fact, I hope it's in QA already. :) I h |
| Re: Delta sync support? | the_roggy | 6/3/12 2:48 AM | This problem has been acknowledged by a google employee in the following thread:https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=nl#!searchin/drive/duplicates/drive/Yjmkd4nbhw4/JQTxtE-kaioJ Add a "Me too" and subscribe to that thread so all info stays to |
| Re: Delta sync support? | luc.hoegaerts | 6/6/12 5:28 AM | I confirm as well that delta sync is a must for google drive, dropbox has no problem with that, so our company will go with that. Bandwidth is expensive, especially if you work with 1TB abbonaments. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | d.ante | 6/10/12 4:33 PM | In favour of delta sync! It is where dropbox prevails, especially in business environment. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | joecamel | 6/16/12 10:09 PM | Fail... I hope an official response from Google comes soon... I paid too soon for an account, thinking it wouldn't be feasible for Google to come up with a such a product without considering hashing... I was so wrong. Adding the same file in a diffe |
| Re: Delta sync support? | noharddrives | 6/17/12 10:09 AM | +1 Delta sync missing is a big foo bar on Googles part. That is one of the top reasons the service should be avoided. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | StanT | 6/24/12 4:17 PM | +1 Please add delta sync! |
| Re: Delta sync support? | A1ex V | 7/1/12 4:54 PM | Looks like the issue is fixed with v1.2 client released? Now if I rename a folder, it just renames the folder and NOT resyncing the entire content. Excellent! |
| Re: Delta sync support? | semilemon | 7/2/12 1:09 PM | Yes, I manually downloaded the newest version of the Google Drive client (funny it did not automatically update or inform me a newer version was available), and renaming files/folders does not require re-downloading/uploading the content (for both Go |
| Re: Delta sync support? | A1ex V | 7/2/12 5:19 PM | Yes, having file fragment level delta sync would be nice, but for me, having a LAN sync even more important. That is when computers connected to the same local network would sync directly via LAN, and not via cloud. If you agree, please vote for thi |
| Re: Delta sync support? | ukrishnas | 7/16/12 7:50 PM | I also ran into the same issue when using truecrupt. A small change to a truecrypt volume, or even the modification time results in the whole thing being re-synced. It should be pretty straightforward to implement delta sync. Compute SHA-1 hashes of |
| Re: Delta sync support? | DarkFader | 7/24/12 7:39 AM | +1 for local network sync. It's much easier for testing environments too. And less problems with conflicts being generated. So it should use some local network service discovery protocol such as Bonjour. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | noharddrives | 7/25/12 9:26 AM | From what I read, truecrypt uses true delta-sync and files only have the parts changed updated. Just because the file is being synced in truecrypt does not mean that the entire file is being re-written. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | progitto | 9/5/12 7:21 AM | You're right, it's unusable without this.+1 for delta sync |
| Re: Delta sync support? | sojen | 9/7/12 3:44 PM | I absolutely agree, I really wanted to leave dropbox and join google drive, but as I am using a huge truecrypt drive, without delta sync, it's useless ... +1 |
| Re: Delta sync support? | Raul Durand | 9/11/12 6:17 AM | +1 for Delta Sync |
| Re: Delta sync support? | the_toolz | 9/13/12 11:54 AM | +1 for differential sync! Storing bigger files on the drive without it is useless... |
| Re: Delta sync support? | mikeowaterloo | 11/8/12 2:33 PM | Can't believe there's no delta sync. Guess I'll stick with Dropbox, which has had this since the beginning and is super-fast when making small changes. |
| Re: Delta sync support? | Danni Finne | 12/8/12 3:52 AM | +1 for differential sync |
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| Re: Delta sync support? | Markus Gehlhaar | 5/14/13 5:58 AM |