Provide log version information to fdbdr status #5138
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Problem statement
I can make a fast consistent copy of a fdb cluster by stopping a DR site and copy all the files from all DR nodes to a new cluster nodes and detach this copy from the primary site.
I can perform a point-in-time recovery from this copy with fdbrestore start --incremental --begin_version XXXXXXX.
But there is no easy way to get a source db version for using with --begin_version option.
Findings
When dr agent runs it executes dr_copy_diff_logs tasks for copying version intervals of the mutation log to the DR database, When the task is executing, it has beginVersion: the version all changes before have been copied.
Proposal
Store beginVersion to the state subspace of system keyspace each time dr_copy_diff_logs executes
Read this version from the state subspace and return as result of fdbdr status
This pull request implements this proposal.
I already proposed this PR several monthes ago #4274 but I declided it because it couldn't be automatically rebased on top of 6.2. Now I'd like to propose it to 7.0.