On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:12:42PM -0700, Brian Warn wrote:
> I'm looking at different ways to backup a database from a solaris
> 2.8 box to a solaris 2.7 one. In addition to the standard system
> backups that our sysadmins do during the week, I want to do a full
> backup of the database to a box where I have much more disk space
> than the one where the production mysql database sits. Aside from
> rcp'ing the database, does mysqldump have the abiltiy to backup to
> another box? I don't see anything in the options -- except for
> --host maybe -- that allows this sort of thing.
If the output of mysqldump is sent to STDOUT, you can back it up over
a network pipe with ssh/rsh:
sol2.7$ ssh sol2.8 mysqldump .... > /some/local/directory/foo.dump
Jeremy
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