- Original Message -
From: "Daniel Kasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Backup User
Jim McAtee wrote:
Is it recommended to create a MySQL user for doing backups? Runni
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:39:00AM +1100, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You don't need to create a special MySQL user for backups. If you like,
> you can create a Linux account that only you know the password to, and
> then make sure the backup scripts is only readable by you ( root
Jim McAtee wrote:
Is it recommended to create a MySQL user for doing backups? Running
mysqldump from a script, the username and password will have to be
embedded in plain text.
If I were to create a MySQL user expressly for doing nightly backups
what are the minimum permissions needed?
You d
