In article <3F68FD43.9080708@stripped>,
Daniel Kasak <dkasak@stripped> writes:
> Paul DuBois wrote:
>> If you have problems reloading the table due to the order
>> in which the InnoDB tables appear in the dump files, add
>>
>> SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
>>
>> to the beginning of the file before reloading it.
>>
> Our backups are quick large - over 500 MB. Opening the file and adding
> the above line at the top takes a lot of CPU time and memory - and
> when I'm restoring, I don't have a lot of time...
> Is there an easier way to get it there - can I 'cat' to the beginning
> of a file, or should I make my backup scripts cat the output of
> mysqldump to the end of a file with 'set foreign_key_check=0;' at the
> top? Maybe we could have a switch for mysqldump that does this for us?
Here's an excerpt from my backup script:
for db in $DBNAMES; do
( echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;"
echo ""
mysqldump -u backup --opt $db
echo "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;"
) | bzip2 >$date.$db.bz2
done
