[cvsnt] Repository Robustness

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Feb 6 21:16:45 GMT 2004


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Shawn Haigh wrote:
> Thank you for your prompt and very informative reply... I am planning on
> using the standard client/server configuration, suppose that there was a
> disk corruption or failure..? would I still be able to recover to the
> last commit?  For example some other databases use a journal file
> (usually on an other volume) to recover all the changes since the last
> full backup of the database. Is there a similar feature with CVSNT if
> not, would it be in the future?
> 
If the disk has failed at that level I'd assume that there would be a 
general recovery from backups anyway.  RCS isn't really a database in 
the modern sense (there are plans to use one in the future but not right 
now), but its simple structure has advantages - in the worst case you 
can load the RCS file into textpad and fix it up to remove any problems.

Tony




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