On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:33:44PM +0100, Matthias Bachert wrote: > We want to use dirvish at our site and have a question regarding the > index files used by dirvish-locate. Do these index files expire and are > they removed automatically or do they reside on the backup server until > they are deleted manually? > > The reason we ask is that we want to backup from the dirvish server to a > DLT streamer with afio and as afio has no index we want to use the > dirvish index files to find out which files are on what tape. For this > reason we would like the index files to reside on the server.
You will get better answers from the mailing list at www.dirvish.org . Dirvish uses rsync makes complete images on the server, so if you are using tape to copy the server image, you will get every file on the tape. Efficient incremental methods are used to move the data, and hardlinks are used on the server to store the data compactly, but all files are present in every image. The index does record all the files in the image tree, and their date and permission information. The index is typically stored compressed by gzip. The index files are stored in the image; if the image is expired, so is the index file. However, you can (if you wish) build a script that runs on the server after dirvish runs (a "post-server" script) that makes a copy of the index script into another directory and keeps those permanently. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
