Dump the entire DB, drop the DB, restore the DB. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Jan Steinman <j...@bytesmiths.com> wrote:
> Our incremental backups seem to be filling with instances of ib_logfile1, > ib_logfile2, and ibdata1. > > I know that changing a single byte in a single INNODB table causes these > files to be "touched." > > I put "innodb_file_per_table" in /etc/my.cnf, but apparently, that only > causes new databases to be "file per table," and it is older databases that > are being touched in a minor way daily, causing gigabytes to be backed up > needlessly. > > Some time ago, someone posted a way to convert existing INNODB tables to > "file per table," but I am unable to find that. > > Can someone please post that procedure again? > > (I also welcome any "you shouldn't be doing it that way" comments, as long > as they show a better way... :-) > > This is for a fairly low-volume server, running on a Mac Mini with two > 500GB disks. > > Thanks! > > ---------------- > In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to > judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to > judgement in one particular direction or another. -- Richard P. Feynman > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=joh...@pixelated.net > > -- ----------------------------- Johnny Withers 601.209.4985 joh...@pixelated.net
