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incremental-snapshot creates extra output in snapshot

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, javascript
Domain
backend, cloud

Research direction

Start with bin/incremental-snapshot.js and reproduce the snapshot command against the S3 paths shown in the issue. Inspect the decompressed output for blank lines and trace how records are written; done means incremental snapshots contain no unintended empty lines.

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Description

bin/incremental-snapshot.js s3://$BackupBucket/$BackupPrefix/$TABLE s3://$BackupBucket/${TABLE}-snapshot

sometimes this leaves empty lines in the snapshot output - for example:

aws s3 cp s3://$BackupBucket/${TABLE}-snapshot - | gzcat

{"what":{"S":"new1"},"a":{"S":"b"}}
{"what":{"S":"new2"},"a":{"S":"11"}}
{"what":{"S":"a"},"b":{"S":"ccd"}}
{"what":{"S":"test2"},"a":{"S":"asdf"}}
{"what":{"S":"new10"},"a":{"S":"b"}}
{"what":{"S":"sdfg"},"a":{"S":"asdf"}}
{"what":{"S":"asdf"},"aa":{"S":"bb"}}
{"what":{"S":"test"},"a":{"S":"test1"}}

{"what":{"S":"new"},"a":{"S":"fish faster 8"}}
{"what":{"S":"test4"}}
{"what":{"S":"b"},"a":{"S":"aa"},"b":{"S":"cc"}}

This one, anyway, is easy enough to handle during the uncompress ( | gzip | grep -v "^$) - but...

removed other case, found where that data came from and it was on me.

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