> Dumping Cache is a feature that is discussed in details. I agree that > dumping cache to keep it warm may not be the best idea. However, I > recently got into the situation where we lost the database and we lost > the backup of the database. So, the only thing we had was running > memcached (please stop laughing, it's only a little funny)... So I had > to dump the content of memcached to attempt to recreate the data.... > > I used the tool described here: > http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-April/003905.html > > But the dump was painful as I had to dump chunks and then delete them > from memcached so that I can dump other chunks. > > Is the feature to dump cache still being considered?
Future storage engines might support it... but people should try really, really, really hard to never need it.
