On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, dumps are
total, not incremental.
The dumps are, yes, but what about the creation of the dumps? My
understanding was that they are created by taking an old dump and
adding to it.
No. Each dump process starts fresh from the database, they don't add
to old dumps. (Or at least they certainly didn't the last time I
looked at the dumping scripts, and I have no reason to suspect that
has changed.)
-Robert