Friday 28 May 2004
After spending a few nights worrying about the state of my subversion backups (either they where going to wipe out my new disk very quickly), or I would be at risk of losing more data.. I headed over to look through the subversion HEAD to see if there was anything interesting in there.. (maybe a secondary copy backup system or something..).. Not there, but what looks like a better solution. A new backend!
Yes, it looks like I can finally free myself of hastles with BerkleyDB recoveries, as there is a new storage system: libsvn_fs_fs, it writes to good old flat files. (1000 per directory from my reading of the mailing list archives). A simple rsync backup without delete should be pretty safe on that. Only snag is that I have to use a development version of subversion (wonder which is the worse of two evils...)
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