On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:36:39AM -0700, Risto Treksler wrote:
> backing up the database is very important,
> but using the above command it is needlessly difficult to roll it back
> 
> I use d
> 
> mysqldump --opt --allow-keywords --all-databases -uroot > mysqldump-0.16.sql
> gzip  mysqldump-0.16.sql

Alas, this can be needlessly difficult in another direction.

I recommend against using "--all-databases" -- at least some, and
possibly many, people are using the MySQL install on their box for
other things; you don't want *that* stuff to roll back at the same
time.

Cheers,
-- jra
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