on 02/27/2004 09:53 AM, Adam Hardy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 02/26/2004 09:02 AM Scott Haneda wrote: >> As per the reco of someone on this list, I created a bash script that runs >> once a day to do the following: >> >> # set path to final destination >> location="/Volumes/foo/sql_dumps/" >> >> # set db_list to the list of databases >> db_list=`echo "show databases" | /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -N -u**** >> -p****` >> >> for db in $db_list; >> do >> echo "dumping " $db "to " $location$db.sql >> /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -u**** -p**** --opt $db > $location$db.sql >> done >> >> echo "changing to directory " $location >> cd $location >> echo "Now in:" >> pwd >> >> echo "begin gzipping and tarballing" >> tar -zcf $location$time.tar.gz *.sql >> >> echo "removing:" >> ls -la $location*.sql >> rm $location*.sql >> >> >> echo "All your MySql Database are Belong to Us"; >> echo $location$time.tar.gz >> >> The first thing I would like to know, is what you all think of this method >> and how secure is it to run the username and passord in the file, if not, >> what other options do I have? > > Seems OK if you're not happy with hot backups. The password is not very > safe though, unless it's under root. Perhaps you could make a user with > a bizarre user name & no password & minimum rights, just for this op. > It's debatable how secure it would be.
That's what I do, bare user with bare privs, but the user has user as pass, why would I want to not have a password, what's the advantage here? My thought is that with only a user, one is 50% there to guessing? Granted they can only SELECT, but at the same time, they would be able to see all data? > >> >> Second question, when I do a dump out of phpmyadmin, I get 1 line at a time >> insert into statements, when they come from my script, I get one insert >> concatenated with the rest. They both work, so aside from one file being >> larger than the other, what are the pros and cons? > > The 1line at a time file would be more easily editable. How do you tell mysqldump to export as one line at a time? Can you explain hotcopy? Does this just mean cp -R path_to_mysql/data ? I thought if data was being written this would be bad? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
