Best way to dump for daily archiving

2003-03-01 Thread Scott Haneda
I wrote a sh script to use mysqldump to iterate through my databases and dump them to .sql files, I am supplying no flags to mysqldump, and wonder, is there a best way to dump your files, if the idea is they are backups and to be used in the case of emergency.

RE: Best way to dump for daily archiving

2003-03-01 Thread Cal Evans
use the -opt flag. =C= * Cal Evans * Stay Plugged Into Your Audience * http://www.christianperformer.com -Original Message- From: Scott Haneda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 4:27 PM To: MySql Subject: Best way to dump for daily archiving I wrote a sh script

RE: Best way to dump for daily archiving

2003-03-01 Thread Don Read
On 01-Mar-2003 Scott Haneda wrote: I wrote a sh script to use mysqldump to iterate through my databases and dump them to .sql files, I am supplying no flags to mysqldump, and wonder, is there a best way to dump your files, if the idea is they are backups and to be used in the case of

Re: Best way to dump for daily archiving

2003-03-01 Thread Scott Haneda
on 03/01/2003 3:03 PM, Cal Evans at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use the -opt flag. Can you tell me how to add in the username as well, I get a ./bin/mysqldump: invalid option -- o error Here is the pertinent line /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -uUserName $db $location$db.sql

Re: Best way to dump for daily archiving

2003-03-01 Thread Gerald R. Jensen
Try ... /usr/local/bin/mysqldump -uUserName --opt $db $location$db.sql - Original Message - From: Scott Haneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cal Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MySql [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: Best way to dump for daily archiving on 03/01