On 09.02.2001 11:35:27 T. Stephen Dachtera wrote:

> I am wondering, if it is possible to use MySQL and create a shell script to
> backup tables from a database on a cron?  If anyone has an idea if this is
> possible, and how I might go about it, it would be much appreciated!

Create a cron job that just starts mysqldump with all the parameters that you'd
normally pass and redirect the output to a file



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