On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:37, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > <troll> > until you have to split it across two disks because one is full. > > and don't forget, a single monolithic storage file gets backed up fully > every time you change it. The guy in charge of buying tapes to back up > your system just screamed in agony, since there's no possibility of an > incremental backup for what is 99.9999999% static data.
> </troll> Actually, newer versions of ZODB have a script called repozo.py which makes incremental backups feasible. It knows a lot about FileStorage's formats. Also note that there are alternative storage implementations such as BerkeleyDB-based storage (slow, but presumably more reliable) and the 3rd party DirectoryStorage. We'll talk about databases in another thread. I have my own biases, but I'm too tired now to get into it. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
