On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:19 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
> I've got a couple clients who have a VFP9 app that uses a MySQL5
> database as the backend in their shop.
>
> What advice would you give for creating a backup strategy so that the
> database is regularly backed up to an offsite location to prevent
> catastrophic loss of data due to fire/robbery/etc. ?
I've used the mysqldump utility on a cron job, with the output files
being archived in the backups. You can archive the MySQL data files
directly, but you have to shut down the server while you're copying
them.
-- Ed Leafe
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