You could mount a directory as a ramdisk. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:52 AM, David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> > wrote: > > > It backs up to any disk that you can access. > > Do you have a network file system? > > > > Well yes, but I'd like to handle it at the application layer. Basically, > we operate a custom replication layer atop sqlite. It replicates > individual transactions great with 2-phase commit, but right now you need > to manually "bootstrap" a new server by copying the database from a > different server. I'd like to auto-bootstrap a new node by just starting > it, it'd connect to a peer, and then download the entire database. > > > > > how to use this API to do an incremental backup > > > > This API is not incremental; it always copies the entire database. > > > > Agreed it will copy the entire database, but incrementally -- one bit at a > time. Each call to sqlite3_backup_step() backs up a bit more to the target > file on disk. My goal is to instead have sqlite3_backup_step() copy some > pages to some block of RAM, so I can send that data over the wire and write > it to the remote disk. > > -david > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >
