Hoi,
Two things:
- if we abort the backup now, we do not know if we WILL have something at
the time it would have ended
- if the toolserver data can provide a service as a stop gap measure why
not provide that in the mean time
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/29 Alai <[email protected]>
> Russell Blau <russblau <at> hotmail.com> writes:
> > FWIW, I'll add my vote for aborting the current dump *now* if we don't
> > expect it ever to actually be finished, so we can at least get a fresh
> dump
> > of the current pages.
>
> I'd like to third/fourth/(other ordinal) this idea too. I've been using
> the
> (in comparison tiny) SQL dumps for various purposes, and it's most vexing
> that these have to wait until the end (or lack of any end...) of the larger
> XML dumps. (The same data is replicated on the toolserver, of course, but
> I'd get beaten to death if I tried to run some of the data collection
> scripts
> I've been running offline, there.)
>
> Cheers,
> Alai.
>
>
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