On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I here there are some advantage to both. > > > My primary interest to to save disk space with heavily modified > Repositories. > > What exactly get's "Cleaned-up" when doing a dump & load? > > Besides the "time" savings what is the real difference between a the 2 > methods ? > > Phil
You can do updates and leave out troublesome revisions in a dump and load. The new repository also does not have the same uuid, which helps prevent "split brain" problems, which will bite you at the *worst* possible moments. Also, "ftp" is not a good tool for this: individual file transfers may fail and cause chaos. If you have to mirror a repository by file transfer, use "rsync", which preserves symlinks and hardlinks and file ownership in ways that a load/dump or simple FTP transfer can only do with considerable extra effort..
