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

Rob Rogers vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:42:09 -0600 (CST)


> Why not just export the the databases with MySQL-dump and back up the
> exported files instead of the live databases?

Right at the bottom of the email you quoted...

>> Somebody with a suggested workaround using mysqldump that doesn't quite
>> work for me:
>> http://ben.milleare.com/archives/000016.html