Thanks for the pointers Ryan,

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>
>> Are there any plans to give 
>> the client file daemons the ability to transfer just the differences 
>> instead of the whole file?
>>     
>
> This was a requested project, but I guess you can imagine what /I'm/
> going to say next. :)
>
>   
>> I guess one 'solution' would be to rsync the database to a local machine 
>> and back that up instead.
>>     
>
> Another thing you could do is back up a diff of the database (provided
> this sort of thing actually works properly on SQL files -- I'm not
> certain myself, but perhaps this idea can seed someone that knows what
> they're doing) or something like that. Or, instead of backing up a
> database dump, backing up logs that can be applied to the database? Just
> throwing out some ideas.
>   


Database logs are like incremental dumps and they get rotated by default 
in MySQL.  You're right in that they can be a lot smaller than an entire 
dump of the database but you'd need to do the occasional dump to 
simulate a full backup.

Planning for disaster is difficult isn't it ;-)


David.

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