Re: [Sks-devel] dumping, importing, and KDB size

[Yaron M. Minsky]

Automatic deletion of archive files is, I think, doable in the
appropriate versions of BerkeleyDB.  I'll take a look at that as well.

Note that you don't always want to delete these log files, since they do
provide a good way of doing incremental backups.  You can learn more
about that from the BDB documentation.

y

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:09, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dan Egli wrote:
> 
> > > Thirdly, the KDB directory seems to grow and grow and grow.  It's hard
> > > to believe that there are so many new keys since I started operating the
> > > keyserver (the KDB dir is 1.6 gigs, the dump dir is 2.1 gigs).  Is it
> > > possible to somehow 'compress' the KDB directory?  For instance, are all
> > > those log files needed?
> > 
> > No. As an example my KDB dir had 118 log files today. Only #118 was
> > needed. the easiest way to take care of that is to change to your KDB
> > directory (and do the same in your PTree dir), then run: rm -f
> > `db_archive`
> 
> Just freed about 1.2 gigs with that, thanks.  Yaron, could that be
> documented somewhere in 1.0.5?  Or preferably sks would get rid of them
> itself?
> 
> Peter
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