How does dropbox version/upload large files?

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Published on 2009-08-11T17:34:09Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 7:54 UTC
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Hey everyone,

I have a free dropbox account (2GB), and I was wondering how the versioning of large files works.

I have a full backup of all my webfiles that sites @ just over 1GB. After the initial upload of 1GB, everytime it syncs will dropbox figure out the delta of the file, or will it have to upload the entire thing again to version it?

It would be cool to always have an up to date version of a large file, but I dont want to kill my bandwidth uploading 1GB everytime.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

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