Beau Lebens wrote:
// err.. please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't pkzip
// exactly that? or more
// exactly, winzip is a windows interface to it? it certainly
// uses the same
// compression
nope - you're right, i forgot about pkzip, but i was just saying that it's
pretty
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// Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 2:33 AM
// To: Jacob Singh
// Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
// Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Backups, best practices
//
//
// Hey Hey Hey!!!
//
// That depends on what system your running!?!?!?
//
// I run LinuxPPC and use 3 ways
//
// 1. Bru Tape back system
//
// 2
// you can get command line zip/compression packages for
// windows, although
// for
// *some* reason, as far as i know, not a command line
// version of winzip -
// the
// big one!
//
// err.. please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't pkzip
// exactly that? or more
// exactly, winzip is a
I use a script, written in Perl, that I run manually (but could be added to
a cron tab):
--- Starting of the script
#!/usr/bin/perl
print Starting...\n;
### Some variables
$BASEDIR = /home/backup;
$dump_path = /usr/bin/mysqldump;
$date_path = /bin/date; # path to date
$date_format = +%d%b%Y; #
try mysqldump
- Original Message -
From: Jacob Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Backups, best practices
Hello,
I'm just wondering how everyone manages their MySQL backups, I'm
looking for a better
Hey Hey Hey!!!
That depends on what system your running!?!?!?
I run LinuxPPC and use 3 ways
1. Bru Tape back system
2. At 12:00 AM the shell script runs and copies the files..
3. Once a month I manually copy the files to a zip.
Dan
PS WindowsGood luck.
On Thursday, September
