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		cientifico on Sept 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software For database, in my experience, is better to dump the whole database and backup the dump for the reasons you explained

viraptor on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

Depends on your database size, type, change rate, etc. Dumping the database to a file is fine for toy and small cases, but not for a 1+TB store that's under heavy writes.

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