[vox-tech] Tar, MySQL, and cron-ed backups

Bill Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:33:22 -0800


On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:24:59PM -0800, David Siedband wrote:
> Why not just export the the databases with MySQL-dump and back up the 
> exported files instead of the live databases?

I'm vaguely familiar with what he's working on (though hadn't looked into
backups there), and unfortunately, I think disk space is an issue ATM.

-bill!