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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil+venti backup question
From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:05:47 +0200
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> On Thu Mar 29 07:12:11 EDT 2007, uriel99@gmail.com wrote:
>> Yes, but then you wont have permanent snapshots, I very much recommend
>> using venti, among other reasons because even in case of your fossil
>> getting corrupted (which is not unheard of, specially if you run out
>> of space), you can always restore the last snap from venti.
> 
> the solution to fossil corrupting itself is to fix fossil, not to 
> insist on venti.
> 
> automatic archival snapshots are a great feature, but my personal 
> experience has been that venti is not resistant to unexpected
> power failure.

Besides the archival snapshots, the other nice feature of venti is the
partitioning in CD-sized arenas.  Having every used arena written to
CD, one can stay quite calm, even if venti suffers a power failure.

I write the latest arena onto CD in a daily cron job, periodically
cmp'ing the CD set with the arenas.

Heiko