[ZODB-Dev] repozo full backup and index files

[Christian Theune]

On 05/12/2010 11:51 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was wondering if there's a specific reason why repozo does not
> backup or create index files, whenever it does a full backup.
>
> I understand that creating index files for incremental backups is
> probably hard, but for a full backup it should be possible. Recreating
> the index file after restoring a backup can take forever and increases
> the potential "downtime" quite a bit.
>
> So is this just something nobody ever had time to implement or are
> there technical problems with this?

Hmm. If the full backup is just a regular FS file then you could start 
with the naive approach and just open/close it once after performing a 
backup as that would create the index file.

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