[Design] Fwd: Backup/Restore preferred feature name over Dump/Reload

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Feb 26 14:27:44 PST 2007


At 05:14 PM 2/26/2007 -0500, Mike Taylor wrote:
>I've been reading the design list and following along in questions during 
>meetings and would like to suggest that from this point on we use Backup 
>and Restore in place of the various phrases when describing the following:
>
>Allow the user to create a complete backup of their Chandler data in a 
>manner that is cross-platform and schema-version independent.
>
>Agree?  Disagree?

The problem is the definition of "complete".  IIUC, the objection to the 
backup/restore terms is that it is *not* "complete" because it omits 
information about previous repository versions, and may omit other things 
as well.



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