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Re: Unused dblogs - checkpoints and journaling

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-09-08 15:32:05 CEST

pkahn@connected.com writes:
> I am a little confused by the dblog situation. I am working with a
> subversion repository that has been running for about a year. I recently
> had a wedging situation and had to do a recover from the admin. It took
> about 8 hours on good hardware. This makes me think that it recovered from
> revision 0.

What exactly did you type to recover, and what was the output?

> I'm a former perforce administrator and am used to the model of journaling
> with checkpoints. I start a db and a transaction log capture all
> transaction. At a certain point (a nightly backup perhaps), I make a
> checkpoint and start a new journal file. I can now reconstitute my db from
> the beginning using the two journal files or from day 2 using the checkpoint
> and the journal file. If I am 600 days in all I need have is checkpoint.599
> and the current journal to reconstitute my database.
>
> Is this how the Berkeley db is operating? Is there a checkpoint like
> process I should be doing to my db on a regular basis? I believe I may not
> be, because a wedged db shouldn't need to go back to ground zero should it?
>
> Thanks for the help....

Subversion should already be automatically checkpointing. I'm not
sure why your recovery took 8 hours. It would help if we knew stats
on the repository: size, better yet 'ls -lR' output, highest revision,
stuff like that.

Best,
-Karl

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