[Sugar-devel] Journal Backup/Restore UI

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 10:14 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> > However, it looks like it would take a couple of months of effort to get
> 
> I think you are overengineering this.
> 
>  - Single-file restore is well solved by Moodle's backup/restore UI + Browse
> 
>  - As you found out, librsync isn't what you want... just rsync _all_
> of it, and then inject each entry using copy-to-journal. It doesn't
> fix the disk usage problem, but it sure solves the "restart datastore"
> and the associated issue that you are deleting whatever new was in the
> Journal. You are not "restoring".

Ok, how about:

 - an initial rsync with no destination to list what's available

 - rsync one file at a time + copy-to-journal.

There's still the possibility that one very large file would make the
entire process fail.

Does the datastore support creating entries with no data and writing the
data at a later time? I don't know much about the datastore design, but
I got that we use uuids as keys, not hashes of the content.


> Stoopid question: can't you 'FUSE'-mount the XS directory with sshfs
> and then use copy-to-journal? Latency will make that a tad slower, but
> the local-diskspace issue is gone.

Very good idea.


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