Re: Whither "svnadmin list-dblogs"?

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Let me try to ask this a little more forcefully: why do we have an
> svnadmin command to list all of the db logs? Does it do anything
> other than provide rope?
>
> The last time I asked this, all I got was a noncommittal answer from
> Fitz that it might help with an alternative implementation of hot
> backups, although I can't imagine how; there'd be a race condition
> between the time you ask the question and the time you finish copying
> the logs.

The formula for doing a hot-backup is:

  1. copy all files to new location

  2. go back and re-copy only logfiles.

  3. run recovery on the copy.

People (fitz, cmpilato) believe that the "ropey" command is useful for
step 2. Others have argued that just having the hot-backup script
copy log* is enough.

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Received on Mon Aug 25 18:19:26 2003