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First pass at documentation for maintenance (#3830)
Assumes the addition of `--user` and `--hostname` flags Also unhides the maintenance command and mode flag --- #### Does this PR need a docs update or release note? - [ ] ✅ Yes, it's included - [ ] 🕐 Yes, but in a later PR - [x] ⛔ No #### Type of change - [ ] 🌻 Feature - [ ] 🐛 Bugfix - [x] 🗺️ Documentation - [ ] 🤖 Supportability/Tests - [ ] 💻 CI/Deployment - [ ] 🧹 Tech Debt/Cleanup #### Issue(s) * #3569 #### Test Plan - [x] 💪 Manual - [ ] ⚡ Unit test - [ ] 💚 E2E
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description: "Repository maintenance." | ||
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# Repository maintenance | ||
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Repository maintenance helps optimize the Corso repository as backups are created and possibly deleted by the user. | ||
Maintenance can also free up space by removing data no longer referenced by any backups from the repository. | ||
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It's safe to run maintenance concurrently with backup, restore, and backup deletion operations. However, it's not safe | ||
to run maintenance operations concurrently on the same repository. Corso uses file locks and the idea of a repository | ||
owner to try to detect concurrent maintenance operations. | ||
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## Repository owner | ||
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The repository owner is set to the user and hostname of the machine that runs maintenance on the repo the first time. | ||
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If the user and hostname of the machine running maintenance can change, use either the `--force` flag or the `--user` | ||
and `--host` flags. | ||
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The `--force` flag updates the repository owner and runs maintenance. | ||
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The `--user` and `--host` flags act as if the given user/hostname owns the repository for the maintenance operation | ||
but doesn't update repo owner info. | ||
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*If any of these flags are passed the user must make sure no concurrent maintenance operations run on the same | ||
repository. Concurrent maintenance operations a repository may result in data loss.* | ||
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## Maintenance types | ||
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Corso allows for two different types of maintenance: `metadata` and `complete`. | ||
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Metadata maintenance runs quickly and optimizes indexing data. Complete maintenance takes more time but compacts data | ||
in backups and removes unreferenced data from the repository. | ||
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As Corso allows concurrent backups during maintenance, running complete maintenance immediately after deleting a | ||
backup may not result in a reduction of objects in the storage service Corso is backing up to. | ||
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Deletion of old objects in the storage service depends on both wall-clock time and running maintenance. | ||
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Later maintenance runs on the repository will remove the data. |
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