Re: hammer: big file changes very often

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

elekktretterr@exemail.com.au wrote:
> Hi,
> Ive just been thinking about this thing. what if i had a lets say > 1gb
> database file which changes at least every 30 seconds. if sync is run
> every 30 seconds, i would effectively create 2880 historical copies of the
> same 1gb file every day. This would equal to almost 3TB of history every
> day. I think its safe to assume that most people dont have 3TB of space.
> How would you have to configure hammer to only keep one copy a
> week(without creating 3TB of history every day) or not keep any copy of
> this file at all?

"chflags nohistory" is your friend.

Regards,

  Michael