Re: [fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-29 Thread Thomas Levine
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, at 20:05, Warren Young wrote: > However, I’ll also give a counterargument to the whole idea: you > probably aren’t saving anything in the end. An intelligent deconstruct > + backup probably saves no net I/O over just re-copying the Fossil repo > DB to the destination

Re: [fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-17 Thread Richard Hipp
On 6/17/18, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > As content is added to a fossil repository, files in the corresponding > deconstructed repository never change; they are only added. Most backup > software will track changes to the deconstructed repository with great > efficiency. > > I

Re: [fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 10:08 PM Warren Young wrote: > On Jun 17, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > > > If you’re willing to gamble that if the first test returns true that the > second will also returns true, it buys you a big increase in speed. The > gamble is worth taking as long as

Re: [fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-17 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 17, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > If you’re willing to gamble that if the first test returns true that the > second will also returns true, it buys you a big increase in speed. The > gamble is worth taking as long as the files’ modification timestamps are > trustworthy. I

Re: [fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-17 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 17, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > > One inconvenience I noted is that the deconstruct command always writes > artefacts to the filesystem, even if a file of the appropriate name and > size and contents already exists. You might want to split that

[fossil-users] Backups of deconstructed fossil repositories

2018-06-17 Thread Thomas Levine
As content is added to a fossil repository, files in the corresponding deconstructed repository never change; they are only added. Most backup software will track changes to the deconstructed repository with great efficiency. I should thus take my backups of the deconstructed repositories, yes?