[Xapian-discuss] Suitability of Xapian for my application?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Oct 15 17:30:36 BST 2004


On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Penz, Bernhard wrote:
> Follow-up question on this: With pausing updates you mean that Xapian
> shall not perform a flush during backup. I can continue adding documents
> as long as I prevent it from flushing the updated index to disk, right?

You think this would work OK, except that you need some way to ensure an
automatic flush doesn't happen during the backup.  There isn't a
mechanism for that at present.

Or you could check if an automatic flush did occur and redo the backup!
To check properly isn't trivial though.

Cheers,
    Olly



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