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

[Peter Palfrader]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:52, Dan Egli wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I wonder if there is a way to do incremental keydumps.  There appears to
> > > be an option -dump_new_only but I do not really understand how it works.
> > > Can I make it so that only keys modified after yyyy-mm-dd are dumped?
> 
> dump_new_only actually only dumps keys not present in the "live" keydump
> that the database was built on.
> 
> But adding a "after-date" feature should be quite easy.  I'll look into
> it.

That'ld be great.

> > > Secondly I understand that in order to import a new keydump, one has to
> > > setup a second SKS instance and have it gossip with the main server.  Is
> > > there a way to only sync in one direction?  Is there a chance to get
> > > stats about the sync?  Like n keys new, m keys updated with k new
> > > signatures, l subkeys, and o new uids?
> 
> There is actually a feature in 1.0.5 that allows for adding in a keydump
> directly, without starting a second SKS server.

Does it also return stats of the import, to see how much one learned
from the keydump?

Peter
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