[PHP] RE: [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. This is not on my server, and it's in production, so I don't want to risk testing different methods and possibly hanging up their server for a period of time, so I

[PHP] Re: [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Colin Guthrie
clive wrote: I'd say give some attention to the zip method you use. or better yet rsync the file, send only what has changed. Good advice but may not work as well with extended insert syntax which results in smaller dump files and much faster import too. I guess with CSV it could work well