--- Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I need to backup a MySQL server before I commandeer the > hardware it was running on. I really would like to give the > guys that were running it the most complete dump of data that I > can. > > Tell me what you think... > > I added "--skip-grant-tables" to the server start-up so there > would be no permission issues. I then issued "mysqldump -A -a > > full-dump.sql". The docs seem to suggest that this will dump > everything but I just want to be sure. You can't put a price > on the word of the experienced.
That's almost what I would have done. The only difference is that I would probably have piped it through bzip2 before saving :) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
