Greg Stein wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:42:26PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > How does svn.collab.net run hot-backup.py? Via cron?
>
> post-commit hook, as mentioned elsewhere.
>
> >...
> > Is the repository modified at any point after post-commit is called?
>
> It sure could be. Any time that somebody does "svn update", the database
> will get modified (cuz a txn is constructed to mirror the WC). I imagine
> something like "svn diff" would also do it, as the server constructs a txn
> for that, too.
OK, thanks. I meant for that specific commit, the database is not
modified at all once post-commit is run. Obviously, if I put on my
thinking hat, then the post-commit script gets a revision number
which implies that the transaction has completed. Dah..
> Changes will *always* be occurring. There is no way to "wait" for an
> unchanging database. Thus, you must always use the recommended BDB backup
> procedure: copy out the files *then* copy the log files. This is what
> hot_backup does, along with trimming log files.
>
> Note that some people may not want to trim log files, however, as that
> removes the ability to "replay" all transactions from epoch until the
> current point in time (e.g. if you want to reconstruct the db as it was at
> an arbitrary point in time).
I guess, if you were concerned about disk space and still wanted all the
log files, then you could run hot-backup.py and never delete old backups
or snapshots. You could then always put together the log files from
revision N (where N is the revision of your first hot-backup.py) to
M by picking the latest saved log.XXXXX for each XXXX. This would save
disk space but be a hassle to pick the latest log.XXXXX files when you
had to do a recover.
Best,
Blair
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Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
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Received on Thu Jul 18 20:32:04 2002