HI Missyfitz,
Many people will have their own recommendations for backing up
databases, all relative to their own experience levels. As far as I'm
concerned (even as a seasoned tech) tasks like database management
should be easy and require as little of our precious time as possible.
There's a great web-based tool for backing up databases that I use and
highly recommend to anyone of any experience level called MySQLDumper.
It's open source and can be found here:
http://www.mysqldumper.net
I won't go into too many details as you can read about them for
yourself, but I will say that it can back up single/multiple databases
and compress them which makes archiving them very easy. It takes about
1 minute to install and has a fairly straightforward interface. It does
require a functional web server, preferably on the same machine as your
SQL database(s) which is usually the case.
Check it out. If you don't get all the info you need from the site,
I'll be happy to help you in any way I can as I've been using
MySQLDumper for some time now. Cheers.
core
On 6/7/2011 5:12 PM, missyfitz wrote:
What is the recommended method(s) for doing a database backup? Is it simply a
matter of backing up the mySQL database file to external storage or dvd, or
is there some method for exporting all the tables to a text file? I've seen
reference to the latter someplace, but don't have it bookmarked and am not
sure if that's the better way to go, or possibly the only way to go...
Am I safe simply archiving the mySQL database file itself, or should I be
using some method to export all the tables / data to a separate file and
then archiving that file? If so, can you describe briefly how to do the
export to grab all the database data, or point me in the right direction?
Also, is there an automated way (WinXP) to do this, say, every 6 hours, or
is it best done manually?
(I'm a mySQL novice, as I'm sure many people here are, so I think this info
clearly outlined would be beneficial to a lot of us)
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