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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-47939

Improve format of documents returned by $backupCursor aggregation command

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    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
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    • Storage Execution

      When we open a backup cursor and return documents via the $backupCursor aggregation command, documents currently have the following formats depending on the type of backup.

      • Non-incremental (i.e. full) backups return one document per file with the format:
        {
            filename: String,
            fileSize: Number
        }
      • The first full backup used as the basis for future incremental backups returns one document per file with the format:
        {
            filename: String,
            fileSize: Number,
            offset: Number (=0),
            length: Number (=fileSize)
        }

        Note: In this case, offset=0 and length=fileSize always holds.

      • Incremental backups return one document per unchanged file with the format:
        {
            filename: String,
            fileSize: Number
        }
      • Incremental backups return multiple documents (one document per block, where each block has a default size of 16MB) per changed file with the format:
        {
            filename: String,
            fileSize: Number,
            offset: Number,
            length: Number

      We should make this format more consistent by returning document with the following format regardless of the type of backup.

      {
          filename: String,
          fileSize: Number,
          offset: Number,
          length: Number
      }

      In the case of non-incremental backups and the first full backup used as the basis for future incremental backupsoffset=0 and length=0 would clearly indicate the type of backup. Since this involves additive changes to the backup API, it should require few changes from downstream teams like Cloud Backup.

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            backlog-server-execution [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Storage Execution Team
            Reporter:
            james.heppenstall@mongodb.com James Heppenstall
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