On 15-Mar-01 Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I run a database using mysql 2.23 by a webspace provider.
> I would like to keep a 1to1 mirror of it at home.
>
> Unluckiely I have no shell/ftp access to the tables directory.
I assume you have ftp access to a dump directory ?
> The database-dump (with php) is far too big to download it every day.
of course you'll have to get the data reasonably up-to-date first ...
add a ts timestamp() column, then run your php script:
$args=' -t "-wts>=current_date" ';
$cmd="/usr/path/to/mysqldump $args $dbname $tblname >$tblname.dmp';
system($cmd);
this will dump just the changes for the day (run it before midnite).
the ftp the tbl.dmp
and run sed 's/INSERT /REPLACE /' tbl.dmp | mysql db
this will get you back insync for the day.
>
>
> - Any ideas how to backup it?
>
> - I'm dreaming of the changing records on the website and at the
> mirror at home and then magically syncronising the database.
another solution (in case you miss midnite) would be a column
archive enum('N','P','A') not null default 'n' # No, Progress, Archived
just before the dump :
"update $tblname set archive='P' where archive='N'";
$args=" -t \"-warchive='P'\" ";
$cmd="/usr/path/to/mysqldump $args $dbname $tblname >$tblname.dmp';
system($cmd);
then run "update $tblname set archive='A' where archive='P'";
Regards,
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