Re: [Quickfix-developers] Semi OT : QF internal data hotbackup

[John G. <joh...@wa...>]

Hi,

Thanks for all answers, private and on list.

> Rather than complicating the FileStore, wouldn't a better solution be
> to use one of the more "transactional" message stores, like the
> MySQLStore, or the OdbcStore backed by <pick your database>?

I have done all I could the last 2 years to keep this binary out of
database need. It is a simple fix-to-proprietary-protocole translator and
we can't ask all our clients to have yet-another-database-server to
install, monitor, upgrade, patch, and... replicate: we just moved the
problem of losing data in case of crash to another more complex layer of
data storing.

> Looking at 1.12.4, it seems like the BerkeleyDB-backed MessageStore I
> contributed has disappeared.  How come?  Wasn't this included with at
> least one release of QuickFIX?

There you got my attention, even if the replication issue has just 
moved from "how to safely hotbackup QF internal data ?" to "how to 
safely hotbackup a Berkeley DB ?" :-))

Sincerely,
JG