The idea for incremental backup is because the servers' files will be backed up incrementally as well. I was hoping that the full/incremental cycle for the files could be followed by the db as well.
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:25:06 +0800, Winelfred Pasamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i guess the requirement is "daily snapshots". > "incremental backups" are to ease on storage space requirement. > > however incremental backups still need the base backup right? and > depend on some other incremental backups back the time line. and how > easy is it to recover that? > > why not just do daily whole database or table snapshots? then > compress them. then take the second mile by cron'ingly and > passwordlessly (ssh) copying them to at least another host. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
