Re: Size of hotbackup.py files versus svnadmin dump files

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Edmund Lian wrote:

> I just noticed that a dump of an entire repository is much smaller than
> the sum of files that hotbackup.py creates. In my case, 129Mb for the
> dump file versus 429Mb for hotbackup.py

If you do the second hotbackup, it should be almoust the same size than
your dump file. The difference are caused by berkeley DB log-files, which
are not cleaned automatically. So hot-backup often, and your backups will
be smaller. And what about log files, when BDB 4.2 is out, there is
feature for automatic cleaning.

You could also read this chapter of the Book:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5

BR, Jani

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Jani Averbach
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