[Zope] Limit transaction undo

[Joakim Nicander]

Ok thanks.

I will go for the wget cron solution.

/Joakim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charlie Reiman [mailto:creiman@kefta.com]
>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:34 PM
>To: Joakim Nicander
>Cc: zope@zope.org
>Subject: RE: [Zope] Limit transaction undo
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>The answer to mostly of your questions is yes.
>
>Automated packing of the database is pretty easy with wget and
>cron. Capture
>the URL that gets sent when you click on pack, then put that in a wget cron
>job with the appropriate authentication. This is left as an
>exercise for the
>reader (although someone will probably give you a crib sheet
>before you even
>read this message).
>
>Undo can be removed by changing ZODB to use a different backing store. See,
>for example:
>
>http://www.zope.org/Products/OracleStorage
>http://www.zope.org/Members/tsarna/BerkeleyStorage
>
>There might be others.
>
>As for learning about transactions: I'm not sure. Try the developer docs or
>look for ZODB docs.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
>> Joakim Nicander
>> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:20 AM
>> To: zope@zope.org
>> Subject: [Zope] Limit transaction undo
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>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> We are using Zope for several customers where we built an interface to
>> maintain their own websites.
>> Working very well, but the ZODB will grow because of all saved
>> transactions.
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>> We don't need the saved transactions since we do all the production on
>> another server.
>>
>> Today we manually pack the ZODB regularly, but it would be nice to either
>> stop or limit this feature. I have searched but haven't found any hint on
>> how to do this. Is it possible?
>>
>> If not, is there a way to automatically pack the ZODB regularly?
>>
>> Another odd thing is that I see transactions saved when a dtml-method has
>> been viewed. The method doesn't contain anything that do any
>> changes to the
>> ZODB. But I need to do some more testing and learn how Zope handles
>> transactions before be absolutely sure.
>>
>> Where can read more about how/what Zope saves transactions? The handbook
>> didn't go in to any details.
>>
>> Joakim Nicander
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