The "db.backup1" and "db.backup2" dirs are created by obeying Sleepycat's recommendations on backing up Berkeley db to prepare for possible catastrophic recovery. If you have to restore everything from backup, using the latest clean version of the db.backup's is safer than trying to use the db/ directory as your backup software grabbed them (since your backup software might not have done it in the correct order).Am I correct in assuming that the "db" directory doesn't need to be backed up - in fact should not be backed up - and I should instead be backing up the db.backup1 and db.backup2 dirs and using reconstruct to recreate db itself?
Backup and disaster recovery (and really our interaction with Berkeley db as a whole) are things that need to be better documented.
Larry
