"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> In #1571 there is a patch that provides us with svnadmin hotcopy:
>
> svnadmin hotcopy [--cleanlogs] SRC DEST
>
> The patch is looking good, but I have some questions regarding
> the pruning of logs.
>
> The command comes with an option --cleanlogs, which removes the logs
> not in use anymore from SRC. Now, I can see why it would do that.
> I'm wondering if it should remove the logs from DEST aswell, or not
> to touch it. Basically, what if I want to clean the logs from DEST,
> am I back to using svnadmin lsdblogs | xargs rm?
>
> Or should be grow a command cleanlogs, which does what the --cleanlogs
> option to hotcopy does? If we do that, the user can decide when to
> clean out logs (without requiring a hotcopy), safely all the time.
> Then there is also the option of the user using svnadmin cleanlogs on
> DEST. hotbackup.py can use svnadmin hotcopy SRC DEST, followed by
> svnadmin cleanlogs SRC to maintain current behaviour.
If we treat as special generic log file cleanup, then we should also
provide a subcommand to relocate unused logs elsewhere (for backup
purposes). But this is just silly. The removal and relocation of
logfiles can be done just fine with xargs or with a custom wrapper
script (for those on xargs-impaired OSes). We don't need to promote
every permutation of every command-line operation to a first-class
subcommand.
So:
+0 on --cleanlogs removing logs no longer in use by the DEST
repos from SRC repos (that is what the option does, right)?
This insures th at the subcommand never removes logs from SRC
that it doesn't have a copy of in DEST. We don't strictly
need this option at all.
-1 on --cleanlogs removing that same set of logs from the DEST
location. I'd like to guarantee that if you never removed
logs by any external means, running 'svnadmin hotcopy
--cleanlogs' routinely on your repository will a) keep your
live repos log count as low as safely possible, and b)
produces a set of backups from which every log file necessary
for catastrophic recovery can be gleaned.
-1 (no veto) on 'svnadmin cleanlogs'
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Received on Thu Oct 30 20:22:22 2003