On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The backup files should be plain text, try taking a look at them. It >> could be extra whitespace, depending on how the backup program formats >> it's output. > > Depending on the method used the database dump may have one line per > insert statement, or a more compact format with multiple inserts per > (very long) line. > > Nick quite rightly points out that a quick visual scan (or diff file1 > file2 | less) will show you the difference. > > Roy. >
I thought of diff, but the layouts would have to be very similar for it to be helpful. The human eye has a far better chance of pattern recognition in this situation, unless you have some pretty powerful programming!
