Re: mysqldump question

[Eric Bergen]

Is there a reason you can't run mysqldump on the server? You could then 
gzip it and use any transport method with throttling you want (like wget)

-Eric

Aaron Wohl wrote:

>http://www.birdsoft.demon.co.uk/proglib/slowpipe.htm would seem to do
>what you want... I havent tried it yet, but noted the URL for the next
>time I needed that functionality.
>
>
>----- Original message -----
>From: "Amit M Bhosle" <bhosle@stripped>
>To: mysql@stripped
>Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:18:00 +0530
>Subject: mysqldump question
>
>Hi:
>
> i was wondering if there's any way to limit the bandwidth used by
>mysqldump to dump data from remote hosts. since i couldn't find any
>documentation on this, i assume that mysqldump will use all the
>available bandwidth of the network.
>
> the issue is that i'm looking to fetch data to the tune of 100s of
>MBs, and i don't want the mysqldump to hog all the bandwidth, thus
>adversely affecting other communication.
>
>thx in advance for ur time.
>AB
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