Cliff,
I believe we use MyISAM and after verifying it with phpMyAdmin all the types for our tables are MyISAM. Regards, Anthony Wlodarski Senior Technical Recruiter Shulman Fleming & Partners 646-285-0500 x230 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cliff Hirsch Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:04 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Scripting to get a backup of your current MySQL database. On 10/3/07 9:57 AM, "Anthony Wlodarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was confused on the relevance of this topic but since PHP and MySQL go together like PB&J I thought it would be relevant. It has gotten to the point that the application that I built for candidate tracking is growing astronomically so now I was given the task of backing up our data. So far our Apache/Drupal installation is backed up and SCP'ed to a secure server. My one big problem is backing up our MySQL database. Does the script "mysqlhotcopy" have the same drawback as just copy the files manually (frm, MYD, MYI) in the sense that the server can't be updating anything. To be honest I can't guarantee that no one in the office will not be using the system at certain times so it might present a problem. Would it be easier to just to script something that follows this logic: Pre: rename index.php, copy in temp file with downtime message 1.) Stop daemon. 2.) Copy all the table files *.frm, *.MYD, *.MYI files, tar/gzip them 3.) SCP archive offsite 4.) Delete temp folder 5.) Restart daemon. Post: delete temp file, rename file back to index.php Is it unrealistic for my office to expect 100% uptime, even at 3:30 am in the morning (those whacky recruiters). Anthony Wlodarski [EMAIL PROTECTED] First off, what engines do you use? Mysqlhotcopy does not work for the Innodb engine.
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