Re: Questions about a script for regular backups

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:52 AM Anton Shepelev <anton.txt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> [replying via Gmane]
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> Andreas Stieger:
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> >The dump format is not the best option for backups. The
> >restore time is much too slow as you need to recover from a
> >serialized format. In many hand-baked scripts the dump
> >method misses point-in-time recovery capabilities, ->
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> Why should I need those if SVN repositories store the
> complete history?

Because, on a bulky repository with bulky binaries, it is *butt slow*,
you can't easily prune the bulky binaries, and you will inevitably
have split-brain during time between the dump and the next dump/load.
Split-brain Is Not Your Friend(tm).
Received on 2019-08-23 02:58:28 CEST