Personally I just tar up the data dir every hour and have a script to rotate the tar file ( up to 10 tar files.. ).
There are some other utilities out there that are nicer tho. I can't remember them off the top of my head tho. -- sh On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:05, Tab Alleman wrote: > What do you folks out there do to backup your MySQL databases? I'm new > to it and am wondering if there's a good utility for doing it, or some > simple procedure that is already known to be effective and efficient. > > Thanks, > Tab > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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