Mark Phippard wrote on Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 17:06:43 -0500: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Luke Perkins <lukeperk...@epicdgs.us> > wrote: > > I completely disagree with this statement. I have nearly 300GB of dump > > files used as a means of backing up my repositories. > > OK, but aren't you moving the goal posts now? You are implying those old > dump files no longer work or will not load.
Just to this one point: I don't think Luke was implying this, nor do I think he was moving the goal posts; he had described his "300GB existing backups" situation earlier. (On the jira ticket, I think) > That is not true. The only issue is with your own process where you > diff a dump file. Mike is simply saying you are doing something we > never claimed should work. The fact that it did for you was just luck > that may have ran out. To be clear, I agree that we never promised that cmp(1) would work, even though it happened to. Cheers, Daniel