Hello, Yesterday I read replica(8), played with it a bit, and I have the following question:
Say I have a directory A which I—from time to time—want to replicate to directory B. With replica/updatedb I maintain two files, A.db and A.log, describing the situation in the A directory. If A.log has existed since the time replica/updatedb was run for the first time, I may use this log as an input to replica/applylog and create a replica of A in B. However, I don't understand what one should do if this log was removed or somehow shortened (so that it does not mention the files' addition anymore). Some such shortening is, I believe, reasonable, since after say 10 years nobody is probably interested in all the files' changes. But, if I understand, it is exclusively the log itself (i.e., not the server database file A.db) that is used for synchronization by replica... Is there any more thorough explanation somewhere describing how replica works? Thank you for hints/explanation! Ruda
