Quick database question

[Colin Law]

On 27 December 2010 11:05, Shane Litherland <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> wrote:
> ...
> e.g. a bit of program that had
>
> IF database is postgres, THEN send "pg_dump with filename as current
> file+timestamp+the-word-backup" to the postgres db, using user/login
> that the user saved in their preferences or typed in the GUI for this
> task; and save it in the location that user specified in prefs/GUI;
>
> OR, IF sqlite, then do same steps for it;
> or ...etc
>
> and have a GUI that the user ticks which db they use, and other optional
> bits as I alluded to above
>...

Why bother with all this hard work?  What is wrong with File > Save
Backup saving an XML format file?

Colin