Many thanks for the clarification. I will definitively go with cron. -Bruno
2008/12/7 Sven Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Agree on not putting the backup inside the backuped system. Run it either > cold or hot, I run mysqldump every day and the backups are nicely restored > with load (set constraints off, load, set constraints on). > > Regards, > Sven > > 2008/12/7 David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > It sounds like it would be better to keep this out of OFBiz if you don't > > want the data running through the Entity Engine and the applications. > > > > Yes, the service engine supports scheduled services and you can use > > "hack-ish" things to call command-line programs, but cron is way more > direct > > and because it can more easily run on the same machine and is much > smaller > > and has less "moving parts" than OFBiz, it would be more reliable. > > > > -David > > > > > > > > On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Bruno Busco wrote: > > > > Hi BJ, > >> sometime I read in the list that the OFBiz export fuctionality was not > >> intended to be used to perform a system administration database backup. > >> I was thinking to run through an OFBiz re-occurring service an external > >> mysql dump command or similar. > >> > >> Are somewhere examples of running similar external applications from > >> OFBiz? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> -Bruno > >> > >> 2008/12/7 BJ Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> if you talking about the actual database no. > >>> this would require a class that is specific to each database that would > >>> be specified in the entityengine.xml > >>> > >>> however if you look at webtools, you can export the data as entities. > >>> using that as a model you can export and add date-time to the files. > >>> this then can be run as a re-occurring service. > >>> > >>> > >>> Bruno Busco sent the following on 12/7/2008 8:03 AM: > >>> > >>>> Hi list, > >>>> I would like to have OFBiz automatically backup its own database at > >>>> > >>> regular > >>> > >>>> time intervals. > >>>> Has someone already done something similar or could offer me some idea > >>>> on > >>>> the best way to implement it? > >>>> > >>>> Many thanks, > >>>> -Bruno > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > > >
