Load old revision of zone

[Kevin Darcy]

Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <fa2e1350811071712v73baa633p7dacae3db5225466 at mail.gmail.com>, "Jonat
> han Petersson" writes:
>   
>> I recall someone mentioning the bind has the functionality of loading old
>> revisions of a zone-file when using dynamic updates. Is this correct? If yes
>> how is this done?
>> Thanks
>>
>> /Jonathan
>>     
>
> 	named loads the master file and the changes that have occured
> 	since then from a journal of changes.  The zone is marked
> 	as dirty when change is made and a timer is started to tell
> 	named to write out a new master file incorporating all the
> 	changes made when the timer goes off.  This is done to
> 	reduce the number of times the master file needs to be
> 	written when there are lots of changes to the zone.
>   
It's also to facilitate incremental zone transfer is it not?

I was going to mention the "journalprint" utility, but it appears it's 
been removed :-( Last sighting was 9.3.2 in the bin/tests directory. 
Anyone know what happened to it? Was it not considered useful enough to 
maintain?

                                                                         
                        - Kevin