Re: [PHP-DB] Database Backup

2004-10-06 Thread Aaron Todd
Andrew, I like the idea of using the crontab even though I have never used it before. I guess the first thing I need to do is make my script. Thanks for the link to mysqldump, I think it will be usefull. Do you happen to know how I might be able to push a file to another server using FTP?

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Backup

2004-10-06 Thread Andrew Kreps
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:31:34 -0400, Aaron Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you happen to know how I might be able to push a file to another server using FTP? I might http://us4.php.net/ftp has a list of all the FTP related PHP functions with some ready-to-use examples. Enjoy! -- PHP

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Backup

2004-10-05 Thread martin73
You can simply copy files from 'data' subfolder of mysql database or create php script to make a dump of db and run it on regular basis as a cron job. Cheers, Martin What is everyone doing to backup a MySQL database. Just in case...I'd like to backup mine, but I was wondering if there was a

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Backup

2004-10-05 Thread Andrew Kreps
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:33:08 -0400, Aaron Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is everyone doing to backup a MySQL database. Just in case...I'd like to backup mine, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it without going to a page and clicking a button. Is there a way to run a php script

Re: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread John W. Holmes
Chris Payne wrote: Hi there everyone, Is there a quick way I can backup all my databases on Linux so I can download them to my HD/Burn them onto CD? I've started a very large travel project and there is going to be over 100 DB's in the end, each with who knows how many tables and going through

Re: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread ramki
mysqldump -A /path_to_file/filename.sql for eg: mysqldump -A /tmp/alldatabases.sql This generates a sql file which can be used as backup or for restore... Hope it helps.. -ramki Chris Payne wrote: Hi there everyone, Is there a quick way I can backup all my databases on Linux so I can

Re: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread otherguy
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Backup.html This question might be a little bit more relevant on the mySQL-help list... At the very least, if that page doesn't do it for you, you might be able to get a little bit more expertise about backups of very large installations there. -Cameron Wilhelm On

RE: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread Jacob A. van Zanen
How'bout backing up your data directory (ies) Otherwise you can maybe use mysql_dump in a batch?? Jack -Original Message- From: Chris Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:46 PM To: php Subject: [PHP-DB] Database backup Hi there everyone, Is there a

Re: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread jeffrey_n_Dyke
use mysqldump. you can dump all databases (--all-databases) or list them individually. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html hth Jeff

Re: [PHP-DB] Database backup

2003-08-27 Thread David Smith
Just do a mysqldump on the command line. It will dump a whole bunch of SQL code that can be used to recreate the database in the event of disaster. You could even pipe the output to gzip to compress it. mysqldump --all-databases -u root | gzip -c mysql_backup.gz That works fine for me.