Re: Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-25 Thread John Comerford
Is there anyway of doing what is described below with version 5 or will I l have to wait for MySQL 6.0 PlanetMySQL Blog: MySQL 6.0 Feature #2: Online Backup Alexander Nozdrin, Chuck Bell, Lars Thalmann, Peter Gulutzan, Rafal Somla BACKUP DATABASE copies all data and metadata in on

Re: Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-15 Thread John Comerford
I have worked as a DBA for a long time, just not with MySQL and I have spent a lot of time making sure the application is secure. I suppose my question was really what is the best way to do incremental backups? The DB I have most experience with has thing like after imaging etc. which allows

Re: Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-15 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:13 PM, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quickly scanning this page, it doesn't seem to give syntax for an > incremental backup. I am hoping to be able to run something that dumps only > data changed since the last backup. > You could use diff and the previous

Re: Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-14 Thread John Comerford
Quickly scanning this page, it doesn't seem to give syntax for an incremental backup. I am hoping to be able to run something that dumps only data changed since the last backup. Rob Wultsch wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:25 PM, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2) Incremental

Re: Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:25 PM, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Incremental Backups - say one every half hour, then a script to transfer > that to an off site machine that way I can get the DB back to within the > last good half hour... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql

Site Attack/Failure Recovery

2008-05-14 Thread John Comerford
Hi Folks, I am fairly new to MySQL and I am going to be setting up a web site on a third party hosting machine. I continuously hear horror stories about machines/sites being hacked and databases being destroyed. Despite my best efforts I am sure I have some security flaws in my site. What I