Excess __db files?

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Dec 21, 1998 10:54 am

I've been looking over our directories, and it seems like we have over 10
_db folders with varying lengths of "_". What are these, backups? Can I
erase them? How do I prevent them from proliforating in the future?

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Dec 21, 1998 11:10 am

They are temporary databases created during rewalks. A rewalk is done
to a temporary database (_db); when it finishes the old database is
deleted and the temporary one is renamed to the live db. If Webinator
does not finish its rewalk for some reason, this temp db will still be
around and the new data will not be made live. Future rewalks will use
a different temp name to avoid stomping it.

You can delete all the _db databases if you don't have any rewalk in
progress. The next time you do a rewalk, check to see if it fails for
some reason.