-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
It is now possible to mark a user database to be backed up without its data, i.e. only the schema is dumped (mysqldump -d). To do this, include the string "_transient" in the database name: u_jsmith_transient u_jsmith_my_transient_data_p If you have databases whose data doesn't need to be backed up, it would be very helpful if you could rename them to include _transient in the name, to reduce the load / disk space requirements of the nightly backup job. Unfortunately MySQL doesn't provide a way to rename a database, but you can copy the database to a new name like this: $ mysqladmin create u_jsmith_transient $ mysqldump --opt u_jsmith | mysql u_jsmith_transient The old database should then be dropped. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (SunOS) iEYEARECAAYFAk3OGlQACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKdsQCaAwWY3LJ/H4+JcvB0x7VHTyzS VSMAnjVCQBvlfOVG/2DmLtUz0c9EUe5Y =sB8i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette