On Monday 26 September 2005 09:41, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Sat, 24 Sep:
> > Hearing about computers that suffered a hard-disk failure makes me
> > paranoid. I'd like to backup all the MySQL databases. A good option would
> > be for them to be dumped using mysqldump and then stored in a restricted
> > place in normal and gzipped format. The normal is to make sure they can
> > easily be rsynced, and the gzipped is for them to be more quickly scp'ed.
>
> silly person. never heard about gzip --rsyncable? I use it for all my
> server's backups, which I rsync to my home.
I believe I heard of it (thanks to sun's presentation about rsyncrypto) but
did not know whether I can trust it. Now I know I'll use it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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