Lectori Salutem,
as Stefan states here (und natürlich ganz richtig, Stefan) mysqldump is
*the* way to backup, and it will create large files. However, since you get
clear-text human readable text in the outfile -being all the mySQL commands
needed to recreate the database(s)- they're easy to compress with a pretty
good ratio.
Under linux, it's as easy as:
mysqldump --all-databases | gzip -c > my_dump_archive.sql.gz
To get the SQL-commands back, unzip the archive:
gzip -d my_dump_archive.sql.gz
To restore the databases, run the console output of gzip through mysql:
gzip -cd | mysql -u root -p<mypassword>
Of course, most of this could have been found in the list-archives on
http://lists.mysql.com
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=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: Stefan Hinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
=>Sent: maandag 30 juli 2001 20:51
=>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=>Subject: Re: Backup of all Databases
=>
=>
=>Dear Claudemir,
=>
=>you can use
=>
=> mysqldump --all-databases > my_dump_file.sql
=>
=>which will make restore possible on *any* operating system. It creates
=>quite a big file (because of all the create / insert statements) - which
=>might be slow to transfer to / from an internet machine. It's a bit
=>faster if you use
=>
=> cp /var/lib/mysql/* -R /some/safe/place
=>
=>In this case, make sure you use MyISAM files as this table type is
=>interchangeable and runs on any operating system.
=>
=>Regards,
=>
=>--
=> Stefan Hinz
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