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Re: Best practise for long term repository size management

From: Francois Beausoleil <fbos_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 2003-05-13 14:44:52 CEST

Hello Daniel,

Do you regularly remove the log files ? There was a lot of discussion
about the log files. You can run a BDB program that will tell you which
files can be removed, after you've backed them up.

Hope that helps,
Francois

On 13 May 2003 17:47:13 +1000, "Daniel Patterson"
<danpat@adaptiveinternational.com> said:
> Greetings,
>
> I've taken the approach of One Big Repository (OBR), in
> order to be able to happily copy code between projects
> and retain some history (and perhaps, be able to merge
> changes back).
>
> However, this has led me to think that I may have created
> a bit of a size beast.
>
> Currently, with around 10-15 people actively using the
> repository, it's growing at the rate of around 20M/day.
> The reason for this is mostly the kind of files being used
> (large Word docs are the main culprit), but I only expect
> this rate of growth to increase as more users come online.
>
> Without the ability to "prune" out old data, I fear an
> impending point where the database is too large to backup,
> and most of the data within it is unchanging historical
> data anyway. The database also becomes difficult to manage
> (i.e. takes significant time to copy, etc) if the size becomes
> too large.
>
> I guess the tradeoff is between database size and amount
> of history retained, but some guidance as to the point at
> which you draw the line would be useful.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Should the OBR approach be discouraged, for the reason
> that it may grow to unmanageable volumes?
> 2) Is there any reasonable way to archive and prune
> unused historical data? (Perhaps "svn obliterate"
> will solve this)....
>
> daniel
>
>
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