On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Jim Cox wrote: > On 10/13/07, Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > David, > > > > David Kerber wrote: > > > Let me give a bit more detail: I am working on a utility function in my > > > webapp that will periodically copy the database file from the db server > > > to a backup server on the LAN. > > > > Uh.... cron and cp, anyone? You can even use cron to initiate the > > backup, too, instead of scripting it from your webapp. > > Or in this case scp (or rcp, or sftp, or ftp) ?
Definitely. While you're at it, just pipe the backup stream through instead of collecting a huge file on host A and then moving it to host B. I have some DBMS backups that run that way. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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