[PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Brian Dunning
I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. This is not on my server, and it's in production, so I don't want to risk testing different methods and possibly hanging up their server for a period of time, so I wanted to

Re: [PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Richard Davey
Brian Dunning wrote: I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. This is not on my server, and it's in production, so I don't want to risk testing different methods and possibly hanging up their server for a period of

Re: [PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread David Giragosian
On 5/2/07, Richard Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Dunning wrote: I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. This is not on my server, and it's in production, so I don't want to risk testing different methods

Re: [PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread clive
I'd say give some attention to the zip method you use. or better yet rsync the file, send only what has changed. -- Regards, Clive. Real Time Travel Connections {No electrons were harmed in the creation, transmission or reading of this email. However, many were excited and some may

Re: [PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, May 2, 2007 8:54 am, Brian Dunning wrote: I have a huge MySQL table, 2.1 million records, 200MB. Once a week I need to dump it in CSV format and zip the file. You could run mysql_dump once by hand and test just how bad it is, and be ready to kill -9 it if the server gets hurt... But,

Re: [PHP] [X-POST] Fastest way to dump this huge table

2007-05-02 Thread Brian Dunning
Thanks to everyone who answered, think I've got enough info now to handle it. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php