Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-08 Thread David Hillman
On May 7, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Robert DiFalco wrote: Fast, incremental, compressed, and no max-size limitations. Must be transaction safe; able to run while transactions are going on without including any started after the backup began; the usual stuff. Incremental, transaction safe,

Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/8/06, David Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Robert DiFalco wrote: Fast, incremental, compressed, and no max-size limitations. Must be transaction safe; able to run while transactions are going on without including any started after the backup began; the

RE: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-08 Thread Duzenbury, Rich
-Original Message- From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:55 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB On 5/8/06, David Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Robert DiFalco wrote: Fast

RE: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-08 Thread Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)
--- -Original Message- From: Duzenbury, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2006 6:39 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB -Original Message- From: Daniel da Veiga

Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, May 07, 2006 6:14 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 9:27:31 -0700, Robert DiFalco wrote: What are people doing for backups on very large MySQL/InnoDB databases? Say for databases greater than 200 GB. Curious about the backup methods, procedures, and

Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 9:27:31 -0700, Robert DiFalco wrote: What are people doing for backups on very large MySQL/InnoDB databases? Say for databases greater than 200 GB. Curious about the backup methods, procedures, and frequency. A second question, but not for the first time: how would

RE: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB

2006-05-07 Thread Robert DiFalco
, May 07, 2006 6:14 PM To: Robert DiFalco Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Backups with MySQL/InnoDB On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 9:27:31 -0700, Robert DiFalco wrote: What are people doing for backups on very large MySQL/InnoDB databases? Say for databases greater than 200 GB. Curious about

RE: Backups

2006-01-16 Thread Ryan Stille
Furthermore, would it make more sense to have the data dump locally, and then use a script to move the contents of the dump to a machine on the network, perhaps even to a machine located on an alternate network accessed via a second ethernet card? This would be the simplest approach. That is

Re: Backups

2006-01-16 Thread Bill
Hi I'd say that you have an ideal situation to use a Raid level 1 system. Rick Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit dans le message de news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all. I am looking into the different back up methods available for safeguarding my MySQL databases. Ideally, I would like to have

Re: Backups on high-availability servers

2005-07-22 Thread Bruce Dembecki
I would really like to hear how some of you are handling backups on high-availability servers. The DBA in my company is skeptical about switching from MSSQL Server to MySQL, this is one of his reasons (backups). If someone is making MySQL work in a high-availabity environment, let's hear about

Re: Backups with version 4.1

2004-05-17 Thread William R. Mussatto
Mauricio Pellegrini said: Hi I'm using, Mysql version 4.1.1 with InnoDB under SuSE linux 8.2 I don't know if this is the right place to ask. If not please point me in the right direction. I'm performing nightly backups of the datadir. So my backups include a database and the Mysql databases

re: Backups with InnoDB foreign keys

2003-03-21 Thread Egor Egorov
On Thursday 20 March 2003 23:25, Andreas wrote: I'm trying to get going with InnoDB. As for now I created several tables which relate to each other with some foreign key restrictions. mysqldump --all --opt writes 6++ MB stuff in a textfile that mysqld won't accept without SET

RE: Backups mechanism

2003-01-09 Thread Fernando Grijalba
]] Sent: January 7, 2003 15:49 To: mysql users Cc: Jonas Widarsson Subject: Re: Backups mechanism -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas -- ...and then Jonas Widarsson said... % % Hello world! Hi! % Every attempt I have made to find a decent way of backing up a database % ends up

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-08 Thread ed
I use mysqldump to do a total backup of my database. This is done once a day just after midnight. The file is then taken up by our tape backup software. I do hourly backups of our more important databases, also using mysqlbackup. Works fine and I have used it for restorals on a number of

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Clausen
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use mysqldump to do a total backup of my database. This is done once a day just after midnight. The file is then taken up by our tape backup software. I do hourly backups of our more important databases, also using mysqlbackup. Works fine

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-08 Thread Jon Bertsch
Jonas, We use mysqlhotcopy as a command line script set to run daily as a cron job. Seems to work fine. You can add flags that allow you to maintain previous copies of the db in case you need to go back a version or two. It took about 10 minutes to set up. We then run TSM backups to storage of

RE: Backups mechanism

2003-01-07 Thread Simon Green
What we have done it right a small script: It logs on to the MySQL server. It then locks the databases and tables we have put in a config file. Simply copies the data files to a new directory. Unlocks the tables. Once this is done (copy if fast) you can tar or zip up the copied files. Simon

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-07 Thread Lefevre, Steven
Can you post this script? (Minus the passwords, etc.) - Original Message - From: Simon Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jonas Widarsson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: RE: Backups mechanism What we have done it right a small script

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-07 Thread Aaron Clausen
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote: Hello world! Every attempt I have made to find a decent way of backing up a database ends up with tons of reading to show hundreds of ways to do database backups. I want to know which way to do complete backups is most commonly used by

Re: Backups mechanism

2003-01-07 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas -- ...and then Jonas Widarsson said... % % Hello world! Hi! % Every attempt I have made to find a decent way of backing up a database % ends up with tons of reading to show hundreds of ways to do database % backups. Heh :-) And you

Re: backups without revealing password

2002-10-28 Thread Iikka Meriläinen
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, David T-G wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all! I would like to dump my mysql databases to cold files for separate backups; we're too cheap to buy the database agent that will do it live. I started with mysqldump --user=root

Re: backups without revealing password

2002-10-28 Thread gerald_clark
create a .my.cnf file in your home directory, and enter the useid and password here. David T-G wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all! I would like to dump my mysql databases to cold files for separate backups; we're too cheap to buy the database agent that will do it

Re: backups without revealing password

2002-10-28 Thread David T-G
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerald -- ...and then gerald_clark said... % % create a .my.cnf file in your home directory, and enter the useid and % password here. Ahhh... That's also not a bad idea. Between that and perhaps certificates I might be getting somewhere. Will

Re: Backups

2002-03-29 Thread Steven Hajducko
Personally I just tar up the data dir every hour and have a script to rotate the tar file ( up to 10 tar files.. ). There are some other utilities out there that are nicer tho. I can't remember them off the top of my head tho. -- sh On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:05, Tab Alleman wrote: What do you

Re: Backups

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hello Tab, Friday, March 29, 2002, 10:05:20 PM, you wrote: Which table type do you use ? Well if you do not know it's probably MYISAM. In this case you may use BACKUP TABLE to make a quick consistent backup of the table. If you want to have consistent snapshot of several tables you may use

RE: Backups

2001-12-19 Thread John Morton
Perform a hot copy of the databases (using mysqlhotcopy). This also seems to take a while, but at least the database server does not have to shutdown. The trouble with this is that it locks the table from writes when it does the copy. Some of my tables take a while to copy (they are hundreds

Re: Backups

2001-12-18 Thread David Turner
Another suggestion I saw someone make that seems reasonable is to use a break away mirror for backups. I think they lock the tables for a minute break the mirror and unlock the tables. Then they backup the broken mirror at their leisure. Dave On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:00:49PM -0500, Dave Greco

Re: Backups

2001-12-18 Thread Phillip B. Bruce
Dave Greco wrote: Looking over the documentation for MySQL, there doesn't seem to be a consensus on the best way to perform backups of MySQL databases. So far, I have come up with the following ideas: 1. Just copy the files in the data directory to wherever I want them backed up. This

Re: Backups from Server to localhost

2001-08-18 Thread Werner Stuerenburg
sql Stefan Hinz schrieb am Freitag, 17. August 2001, 21:28:54: It's not secure, though (http://www.securereality.com.au/studyinscarlet.txt), so make sure to protect the directory it's installed in with .htaccess when running it on a public server. To make a long story short: dont't trust

Re: Backups from Server to localhost

2001-08-17 Thread Philip Mak
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, hanan khader wrote: Hi everybody I want to make backing up for my databases from the server into my pc, I login to the server with the administrator username and password, how could this backing up be done? and is there any risk that i should be aware of ? is there

Re: Backups from Server to localhost

2001-08-17 Thread Stefan Hinz
Dear Hanan, try PhpMyAdmin (www.phpmyadmin.com). Nice and easy to backup databases and tables, and easy to import from the backup SQL files. It's browser based, so it's platform independent. It's not secure, though (http://www.securereality.com.au/studyinscarlet.txt), so make sure to protect