I can't remember ever having lost data with fossil+venti, on two complete networked systems that have been running on fossil/venti since 2004 and 2005, and they both store quite a bit:
[2004] index=main total arenas=11 active=7 total space=51,385,286,656 used=28,842,582,973 clumps=10,363,594 compressed clumps=8,225,943 data=53,987,673,480 compressed data=28,189,676,551 that's recently been copied to a new drive (soon a set of drives). originally it was to have gone to an SSD, but that failed completely within 15 hours, and i reverted to the clone i'd made on a 320 Gb disk. [2005] index=main total arenas=61 active=57 total space=32748126208 used=30256097096 clumps=8383698 compressed clumps=5978935 data=55987976415 compressed data=29727924122 i see that the 2005 system is probably due for copying to a new arena, and running a newer instance of fossil/venti. in fact i see that kernel+fossil+venti themselves date from 2005. i also ran fossil+venti systems on several laptops and makes of laptops during that time, and never had a problem. i can't remember ever having to reinit the fossils from an archive.
