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| Apr 23, 2016 at 20:16 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | What is the advantage of these tools over simply piping the output of a decompressor into the plain tools? | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 0:32 | comment | added | cas | @underscore_d all of my database dumps (mostly mysql and pgsql) are text dumps, partly because they're more salvageable if something happens to partially-corrupt the dump, and partly because i can pre-process any restore with the usual tools (sed, awk, perl, etc) if I need to. i.e. more reliable and more useful than binary dumps. The trade-off is that text-dumps tend to be larger (who cares? disk space is cheap and we have good compression) and restores are significantly slower (but less so if you wrap the restore in a transaction). | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 20:39 | comment | added | underscore_d | interesting point, but the question is about a database snapshot, unlikely to be a text file, and not only-gzipped. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 16:17 | history | edited | heemayl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 15:07 | history | answered | ejdi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |