Re: [Sks-devel] Copying DBs & Pruning Logs

[Yaron M. Minsky]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:47, Daniel Johnson wrote:
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> Possibly dumb question:
> Instead of dumping my database, copying that to another system, and
> merging it, can I just copy my KDB and PTree directories to save time?

Yes, but stop sks_db and sks_recon before doing the copy.

> My home server took ~30 hours just to merge the dump.  Given that it
> is ~10x faster than the office system, I'd like to avoid a merge op if
> I can.  :)
> 
> BTW, I've got a lot of 10mb log files (~5gb).  Is it safe to delete
> some of them (say, all but the newest 3)?

Use "db_archive" to figure out the list of outdated log files.  "rm
`db_archive`" will get rid of them.  Don't just do it by hand.

y

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