On 13 Jun 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>Space permitting, I'd think that making an (ASCII) copy of the database
>contents into a file is a pretty smart idea, even if you're backing up the
>DB files in another manner.
Space permitting? Most natural language plain text files compress very
well. A file full of database queries is going to have lots of easy to
predict repetitive query statements and lots of natural language within
the database entries itself. It should compress better than 2:1.
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