Re: What files are causing my backup dump to become humungous?

>At some point, my periodic "svnadmin dump" backup became much, much huger than I expected. Never mind... I just found the following in the documentation, which explains what I'm seeing: "By default, the dump file will be quite large—much larger than the repository itself. That's because every version of every file is expressed as a full text in the dump file. This is the fastest and simplest behavior, and nice if you're piping the dump data directly into some other process (such as a compression program, filtering program, or into a loading process). But if you're creating a dump file for longer-term storage, you'll likely want to save disk space by using the --deltas switch. With this option, successive revisions of files will be output as compressed, binary differences—just as file revisions are stored in a repository. This option is slower, but results in a dump file much closer in size to the original repository." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Received on Sat May 5 23:00:47 2007