>>>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:57:54 +0200, Joerg Bruehe >>>>> <joerg.bru...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi George, everybody! > George Larson wrote: >> We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In >> my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. >> >> Like this: >> >> service mysql stop >> cd /var/lib/mysql >> rm -rf * > To the original poster: > I know it sounds very hard and seems to ignore your trouble, but still: > A typical reply in DB support is > "If you have no backup, your data obviously are not important." Please no more "salt in my wounds". I keep telling me that myself and the only lame excuse I have is that the dump command I was used to in Linux did not work out in Mac and I did not bother to figure out why. Uwe Brauer -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
