Re: backing up a repository over a network

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:00:41PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
[snip]
> Hang on a second though. In my example (in my first message) I had
> completed the checkout on the remote repository before I ran the rsync
> backup script again. So if there were temporary files/dirs created, why
> were they not deleted and the repository returned to its previous state?
> Or is this simply not guaranteed for some reason?

The "repository" is the same, but the BDB log files keep a log of the
"copy this stuff" and "delete it again" transaction. So, I think the
strings table etc. should be the same, but the log files will definitely
NOT be the same. (i.e. they will be bigger.)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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