On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:27:28 +0800, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to address the requirement of MySQL incremental dumping for > backup. From what's on the web, it looks like it's not inherently > supported by MySQL, but is done by commercial software. > > Is it practical to get a 'diff' between mysqldump output from > day-to-day, and back that up for an incremental backup?
I don't know about the practicality of using mysqldump diffs; but since mysqldump does produce textual output (unless you're dumping BLOBs, in which case, not really), then diffs would theoretically work. Off-hand though, I do believe it is practical. -- JM Ibanez - A million monkeys can't go wrong... http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- 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
