@JP
With the current amount of data that have been requested, it would likely be 1.5-2 GB for each one, though it might be smaller if LZMA compressed afterwards.
I’m not going to generate deltas because it doesn’t make sense in the format I’m offering dumps in. We’ll be offering the full data file each time.
It will not include image files. Those aren’t in our database.
@DBot
We’re not planning any downtime events or a site shutdown. This is (1) us fulfilling our role as an archive site and (2) providing a separate path for developers to extract data from the site without having to page through the entire site.
@Mr Zero
Dumps are used in the context of the
pg_dump utility. PostgreSQL considers them different from backups, as they do not reflect the internal representation of the database files, and (in general) only contain heap data and the schema statements needed to recreate the database files. In contrast, a backup would also include the on-disk structure of indices, temporary tables, and the WAL as it existed at the time.