Solor Vox wrote:
I would also like to point out you should *never* backup SQL databases
via file method while running. You either have to shut down the SQL
server and backup the files, or use another tool such as
mysqldump/pg_dump/etc. to dump the live data.
Nice MySQL Backup script.
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Hi all,
I've been playing with our Ubuntu server this afternoon, checking out
how to back up the system to a windows share.
I've got that going using tar and smbmount.
First question - is it right that 'tar' does not need to run using
'sudo', as in it can still access all the files?
Secondl
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 02/10/09 16:53:
First question – is it right that ‘tar’ does not need to run using
‘sudo’, as in it can still access all the files?
Wrong - tar is a running process that has the same file access as the
user it runs as. If you run it as root, you can read all files.
I
I would also like to point out you should *never* backup SQL databases via
file method while running. You either have to shut down the SQL server and
backup the files, or use another tool such as mysqldump/pg_dump/etc. to dump
the live data.
You should know that tar will not get other important t
