SPAM[RBL] Re: To remove or not to remove logfiles? (issue #1615)

[Mike Mason <mg...@thoughtworks.net>]

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>I don't really buy the argument for keeping the logs.  Just because
>Berkeley DB happens to offer this incredibly detailed audit and
>recovery trail, doesn't mean we have to take advantage of it.  CVS
>doesn't even support such a thing.  What are the circumstances where a
>regular backup schedule with 'svnadmin hotcopy' is insufficient and
>one would actually need these space-eating logs?  Are such
>circumstances common enough to warrant turning on the space-eating by
>default?
>  
>

I'd rather the logs were cleaned up by default -- anyone who cares about 
integrity is going to read the book section on "backing up your 
repository" and sort their backup procedures (this is the first section 
I read after getting the repos working, and now I do a daily dump). If 
that's not good enough, docs should (and I think already do) include 
bits about ultra-paranoia style hot backups and the like. Maybe that 
section is where switching log retention back on could be described.

Mike.




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