memcache dump and load

[Paul Lindner]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:40:43PM +0000, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> This won't work.
> 
> cachedump is just for visual inspection... it has a very small buffer.  It
> won't include everything.

I know that.  The max buffer value is a fixed string.  Next steps
would be to iterate over the total number of items in chunks.

> I have some local patches to add a command to shut down the server
> while dumping the cache (in a child process) to a binary file on disk,
> which then can be parsed (in Perl), and async "add"'d later to the newly
> running memcached.  I should post those.

That would be very useful.  I was going to go down that route myself
until I discovered the API calls.

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