scripts [was: copying wordlists]

[Tom Allison]

David Relson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:02:09 -0500
> Tom Allison wrote:
> 
> 
>>David Relson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>But the bogoutil dump/load isn't all that's needed to compact the 
>>>>database... ?
>>>
>>>
>>>As stated above, bf_compact is available on sourceforge.  0.93.1 was
>>>released with lots of documentation, but not the bf_copy and
>>>bf_compact scripts.  People having trouble with copying and
>>>compacting wordlists because they hadn't read the documentation
>>>prompted writing the scripts.
>>> The next release will include the scripts.  However it'll be a
>>> little
>>>while before the release because Matthias is working on some thorny
>>>issues with respect to environments and using multiple wordlists.
>>>
>>
>>I was using bogoutil -d as a daily database backup.
>>But it seems that I've lost this capability with the new transactional
>>system.  With DB_CONFIG settins up to 65536 I still cannot dump the 
>>wordlist.  I have 112976 tokens.  Considering the errors, would it
>>make sense to remove the -d option?
>>
>>So the only tools for maintenance are these bf_* utilities?
> 
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> No.  bogoutil can be used, but there are several caveats, because of the
> need of maintaining the integrity of the database environment.
> 
> 1 - When using dump/load, the new wordlist needs to have a new
> database environment, i.e. a new directory
> 

1 - can I keep text files (dumps) in this directory?