Re: estimate size of dump?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Justin Case
<send_lotsa_spam_here_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to estimate the size of a repository dump _before_ generating it? My 25G repository filled 75G of dump then bailed out because of lack of disk space, so I'd like to know how much more space do I need to buy. Before you go telling me "get yourself a 1T external disk" I must underline that we have heaps of policies for requesting storage, for using storage, for NAS and SAN and RAID and whatnot so I really need to know how much I should ask for.
>
> Or can I load a hot copy instead of a dump for restoring a repository? Probably not, but I'm really unsure what that hot copy can be useful for.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> J

Your dump file will be considerably smaller if you export with --deltas.

I would expect the size of the equivalent fsfs repository to be an
upper bound on the size of the resulting --deltas dump file. At least
for the repositories I have lying around, this appears to be the case.

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// Ben Smith-Mannschott
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