Stewart,
Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 5:13:58 PM, you wrote:
SG> I want to create a cron job that does nightly backups of a database, tars
SG> and gzips it, then ftps it to another server.
SG> I was wondering what the perferred method of copying the data would be.
SG> mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy or just copying the files.
mysqlhotcopy is used only on the same box where MySQL server is
running. Look at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqlhotcopy.html
Info about mysqldump you can find at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html
Direct copying files is not recommended way to backup databases.
SG> =S.
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