Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-11-07 at 17:45 -0600, John Clizbe wrote:
>> Rather than add a new file to the dump process, why not just improve the
>> inadequate output that goes into dump.log?
> 
> Because that then needs to be parsed by a tool to extract only the most
> recent dump's information, then put into the dump directory to make it
> available via FTP, so creates more work for the people providing the
> dumps, who are already being very generous by providing dumps.

Most folks have a script to handle the dump creation

mv dump.log dump/

No parsing needed as the next run creates a new log



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