On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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