if the concern is network bandwidth, compress the sql dump first so backuppc
transfers a compressed and theirfore smaller file accross the network. that
would use the least bandwidth. good luck :)
On 10/15/07, Toni Van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a lot of remote servers, and some of them have MySQL running.
> The current backup principle just takes the /var/lib, including MySQL
> tables. Not really cool, I know.
>
> So I like to change to dumping MySQL with mysqldump. Much cooler, but
> how to store those dumps? Should I store them compressed (gzip) or not?
> I do use compression in BackupPC through ssh (-C option).
>
> My main concern is bandwidth usage, not local filesystem space. So which
> option uses the least bandwidth?
>
> Tnx.
>
> --
> Toni Van Remortel, MSc
> Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV
> +32 3 452 92 26 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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