Richard -- You could do both, I would be a lot quicker to import data than restore from tape. Say do an incremental dump back to your last level 0. Which would be helpfull to developers as well as youself. You could also use a seperate partition for the data directory and back that up.
The subject of backups falls under the same catagory as: sport,relegion and politics.... isn't discussed in polite company. Have I confused you yet :) David > I am running mysql on a linux box RH 6.2. I backup all the filesytems > with: > > /sbin/dump 0ubf 8000000 /dev/npt0 > > to a COLORADO 8gig. travan tape drive. Is this sort of backup regimen > a good one -- compatible with MySQL -- or should I instead be backing > up with FLUSH and (or) mysqldump? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Richard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To > unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble > unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
