Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>
> > > I have seen problems where the attrib files are not synchronized with
> > > the backups or when the pc tree is broken. In fact, that is the reason
> > > I wrote several of my routines to identify and fix such problems. Now
> > > true, the cause is typically due to crashes or disk/filesystem issues
> > > outside of the direct scope of BackupPC but there are real-world
> > > synchronization and integrity issues that can arise.
> >
> > But nothing you've proposed will make any difference in this respect.
> > Well, maybe different, but nothing to enforce additional synchronization
> > with the file content.
>
> Except that it is easier to back up a database than to back up
> thousands if not millions of scattered attrib files.
Is it? I think rsync or tar would handle them rather easily and toss
them on about any media without regard to having a matching database
application running. Why is it OK require a sql database application
but not something like zfs?
> Also, there are
> well-known tools for checking database consistency while you need to
> write custom ones for attrib files.
I've found them to be as reliable as the underlying filesystem. Perhaps
that is your real problem.
> > > Indeed, there is no
> > > question in my mind that a single well-constructed relational database
> > > would be orders of magnitude faster here.
> >
> > Until you go to get the data, which is kind of the point.
>
> I can only tell you how slow and non-optimized the current
> implementation is. Do you really believe that a relational database
> wouldn't be significantly faster than the current approach
> finding/opening/reading/decompressing/parsing multiple layers of
> attrib files?
It could be, if it were optimized for that. But updating them might be
slower, finding the records that need to expire and releasing their
space might be a lot slower, and the usual case of getting both the
attributes and the data at the same time would probably be the same or
worse.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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