From: Hassan Schroeder Date: October 30 2012 4:17pm Subject: Re: Dumping drupal databases List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228530 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: > I might try cp -p -r, but need a second opinion. If you want to dump one or more databases, presumably you know the name(s); just use the mysqldump utility. Copying files is not the optimal way to save your data for most use cases. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@stripped http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan