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[Gnu-arch-users] Backing up Arch archives
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Julian T. J. Midgley |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Backing up Arch archives |
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Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:13:31 +0000 (UTC) |
What's the best strategy for taking backups of Arch archives?
It looks to me as though tla archive-mirror run from a cron job is a
good candidate (none of the consistency problems associated with
rsync). However, one can't commit to a mirror (sensibly enough), so
when you recover the archive from the mirror after a disk failure,
say, how do you tell the recovered archive to stop considering itself
a mirror and to permit commits again?
Whilst talking of mirrors, there appears to be a very minor bug in 1.2
whereby attempting to commit repeatedly to a mirror fails
non-idempotently, leaving a lock behind and displaying a less helpful
error message on the second and subsequent attempts:
fate-amenable-to-change:~/tmp/faff--trunk--0.1--patch-5$ tla commit
M faff
attempt to write directly to mirror
archive: address@hidden
mirror of: address@hidden
fate-amenable-to-change:~/tmp/faff--trunk--0.1--patch-5$ tla commit
M faff
arch_commit: unable to acquire revision lock (internal error in
archive-pfs.c(pfs_lock_revision))
tree: /home/jtjm/tmp/faff--trunk--0.1--patch-5
revision: address@hidden/faff--trunk--0.1--patch-6
Julian
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Backing up Arch archives,
Julian T. J. Midgley <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Backing up Arch archives, Tom Lord, 2004/04/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Matthieu MOY, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Dustin Sallings, 2004/04/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Dustin Sallings, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Tom Lord, 2004/04/09