alright, so I'm seeding the DB with a 4GB SQL dump through a k8s port-forward across the world (behind the pond), port-forwarded through socat (a bastian container).

What are the chances I'll succeed? :D

Scaling won't kill it no?

Why don't you spin up a quick alpine container to scp the dump to, then once it's local and vetted you can safely seed from there?

@lungdart I didn't see much of a difference in the two approaches. Unless I used a PV to store it there, if a container goes tits up the dump is gone anyways. And if there's a nw blip, I have to restart anyway. The only benefit I see is that I could suspend my lappy if I was importing from a pod...

@netikras use a PV ffs