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 AlaiWiki@gmail.com
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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