On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > Official dump and load scripts are still useful though, but maybe not in > very high demand.
I think the demand is actually higher than that - you're assuming that people want to use the built in option. I can easily see people wanting to do regularly scheduled dumps to local or remote non-couchdb. Do a back up to tape, cd, back up machine that only runs ssh [or whatever], just to dump the dump in an archive on the local file system, etc. Especially true as more and more IT folk have to support couchdb: dumps are a familiar backup method and can easily be integrated into existing systems, whereas they may have a harder time integrating replication. Also nice to not have to support yet another system (the backup needs a backup!). p.s. I love me some replication. -- Sam Bisbee
