Hi. just a thought, Stephen: Is it possible for you as an Admin to start the Database Update from another server via ssh? If so, you could backup and delete the database dump in one step and run all that via a cronjob from another server?! If they have 'mysqlhotcopy', this is what I use on one of our servers: /usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy $database -u <USERNAME> \ -h localhost --password=<PW> --addtodest <TARGETDIR> or one file via dump mysqldump -u <USERNAME> -p<PW> -x --all-databases >dump.sql (or --databases db1 db2 ...)
'mysqlhotcopy' would probably run faster and produce smaller files (if this is an issue), but 'files', that would have to be tarred. As long as we don't upload any files to the Wiki, the database backup is all we need I guess. Bernd.
