Gerrit backup

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:41:00AM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> On 12/10/2011 12:10 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
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> > The backup is never going to be a consistent snapshop,
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> I couldn't see a way to make a consistent snapshot; is there a better
> or at least more consistent way to do the snapshot?

No, I do not think it is possible, without shutting down gerrit while backup is
taking place (and I do not think we should).

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> > but why add an intentional 20 minute window between the different
> > backup jobs? why not serialize them in a single script?
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> It was more the way things got built than a specific plan. I wanted a
> buffer so that backups could be complete before the next one starts -
> didn't want to risk the backup by abusing resources all at the same time.
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> The backup scripts were written so we could reuse them easily on other
> hosts, but it wouldn't be hard to do it all in one script, serially.

yeah, I think running the scripts serially woul leave less open questions if and
when we need to restore.