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Mandatory Unique Archive Index Prefix in P4 - Why?
Posted by Sven Koester, Last modified by Andre Kuehnemund on 22 July 2011 11:26
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We were asked for an explanation why that timestamp and job ID is added to the archive index automatically. This feature has been changed to mandatory since PresTORE 4, it was advisory in PresSTORE 3. The reason is: to protect from creating a non manageable archive. There is today a variety of different archiving patterns, but only a few peole really care about the structure of the archive and attempt to simply copy the well known structure they have on disk. In fact, the filesystem on disk is a living system that permanently changes while an archive can be seen more or less as a series of snapshots of (parts of) that filesystem, taken at different times. To maintain the time as an addition dimension, the date stamps are in the archive index. Customers who disabled the unique index after a year of archiving discovered some problems that cannot really be solved AFTER archiving:
In PresSTORE 4.2 we will allow to remove the date stamp as an expert option. We do so because of the feedback we received for making the unique index path advisory. Again, that was intended as a protective step for less experienced users. The resulting archive index will be supported partially only, the effects described above will be allowed again but without support from our development. | |
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