On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
re Windows: pipes, yes, hard links, no (and no sane symlinks either)
Actually, NTFS does support hard links, there is just no support for it in any MS file management GUI.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfiles/html/ntfs5.asp
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I learn something new every day! :-)
I guess we *are* specifying that only NTFS will be supported on Windows? (I saw someone the other day running XP on FAT - I couldn't believe it!)
Maybe use an option which you would disable on Windows to copy the files instead of hardlinking them. Yes it would take lots more time and space, but copying raw files would surely still be a lot faster than loading the dump.
I think this would be a good feature even without hard link problems. If I am a paranoid admin, and I can afford the time and disk space
required, I would want to keep a complete copy of my database, even
after the new server is up and running.
I agree. A little paranoia never hurt anyone. Of course, you could always back it up manually beforehand too.
cheers
andrew
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