re: RESET MASTER during daily backups

2002-10-09 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Russell, Wednesday, October 09, 2002, 1:44:14 AM, you wrote: RU> we use the binary log as a crash recovery tool. RU> therefore, once we have backed up the db (we use the excellent mysql_backup for this) we can happily discard yesterday's binlog. RU> the only correct way i've found to get rid of

RESET MASTER during daily backups

2002-10-08 Thread Russell Uman
howdy. we use the binary log as a crash recovery tool. therefore, once we have backed up the db (we use the excellent mysql_backup for this) we can happily discard yesterday's binlog. the only correct way i've found to get rid of old binlogs in to issue RESET MASTER, and i figure i should do t