Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-12-10 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, I apologize if I somehow highjack the thread. I just want to tell the list for further references one way (my way) of doing mysql backup and to ask you if it's safe or not. I have 2 server: one of which is the master (named for the sake of brevity with M) in mysql terms and the

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-11-06 Thread Sebastian Tymków
Hello, Yes you're right but what I meant was something like this ;)) http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/21/using-lvm-for-mysql-backup-and-replication-setup/ It's simple, safe and faster than mysqldump. On 3 GB database it takes only 3-5 seconds. Best regards, Sebastian Tymkow

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Sebastian Tymków wrote: | Hello, | | You can store whole db files too. It's faster to run database from scratch | than use mysqldump and mysql source. Um... no. In general you cannot do this, and it is exceedingly irresponsible to suggest

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, 2008/10/1 John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First, I wanted to say how great this list is. I'm a newbie FreeBSD admin and, besides the Handbook and Absolute FreeBSD (which never seems to leave my desk), this list is the best resource I have. I just had a huge scare today... One of the

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-10-01 Thread John Almberg
So, I thought I would post my ruby script for doing this backup... It's a little verbose for some tastes, but I like to be able to see what's happening in a script, blow by blow. This script rotates the backups according to the day of the month, so you get roughly 30 days backup. It also

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-10-01 Thread Sebastian Tymków
Hello, You can store whole db files too. It's faster to run database from scratch than use mysqldump and mysql source. Best regards, Shamrock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008, John Almberg wrote: First, I wanted to say how great this list is. I'm a newbie FreeBSD admin and, besides the Handbook and Absolute FreeBSD (which never seems to leave my desk), this list is the best resource I have. I just had a huge scare today... One of the

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Gavin Spomer
John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/08 3:18 PM First, I wanted to say how great this list is. I'm a newbie FreeBSD admin and, besides the Handbook and Absolute FreeBSD (which never seems to leave my desk), this list is the best resource I have. I just had a huge scare today... One of the

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:18:35PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I just had a huge scare today... One of the websites on my server uses a large Mysql database. Somehow, one of the tables got corrupted today. Do you know if the table corruption was a result of 1) a MySQL bug (and there are many),

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Chris Pratt
I am just about to dive into Google in search of a solution, but thought I would fire off a quick request, in case there is an obvious solution that everyone uses. If there is, a name or URL will do. I'll figure out the rest. Any hints much appreciated. Not going home until this is

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread John Almberg
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:18:35PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I just had a huge scare today... One of the websites on my server uses a large Mysql database. Somehow, one of the tables got corrupted today. Do you know if the table corruption was a result of 1) a MySQL bug (and there are

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread John Almberg
DATE=`date +%a` # echo $DATE # echo Backup Mysql database mysqldump -h localhost -u YOURSQLUSERID -pYOURPASSWORD YOURDATABASE /usr/somedirectory/somefile_$DATE.backup gzip -f /usr/somedirectory/somefile_$DATE.backup /usr/bin/at -f /usr/somedirectory/mysqlbackup.sh midnight Ah, a much

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Fred Condo
I run a script from root's crontab (not /etc/crontab) and keep the login credentials in /root/.my.cnf so they don't have to be embedded in the script. Not that $gzip is defined as /bin/cat because I move copies offsite via rsync and disk space is abundant. This script keeps 30 daily

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 30, 2008 6:18:35 PM -0400 John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I wanted to say how great this list is. I'm a newbie FreeBSD admin and, besides the Handbook and Absolute FreeBSD (which never seems to leave my desk), this list is the best resource I have. I just had a