Re: Pruning a repository

"Edmund Lian" <elian@inbrief.net> writes:

> In general, how should one manage a repository? The reason for my asking is
> that I have a project that grew from 0 lines of code to some 26 Mb, but I
> don't really care to have access to the earliest incarnations of code since
> they bear no resemblance to the current code. Hot backups of the repository
> yield 400+ Mb backups, which really chews up disk space if I have nightly
> backups and keep anything more than just a few copies.

Does that 400MB include a complete set of BDB log files? If you run
db_archive on the db directory within the repository you will get a
list of the log files that can be archived. These files are not
needed as part of the live database.

-- 
Philip Martin
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