> Merging of two databases, while not entirely recommended, could be > accomplished by appending the output of one backup file to another. > The restore process will handle merging all of the data into one.
I suggest leaving merging to external tools. Define the backup format such that external tools can be authored. I believe SVN does something vaguely similar for backup/restore (since it uses Berkeley DB for a data store). Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ and open source consulting
