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From: | Ed Carp | Date: | March 23 1999 10:22pm |
Subject: | Re: database backups | ||
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>A little off topic, I use a cron job that pipes the output of mySQL dumps >for each installed database into PGP then gzip and finally mail which send >the encrypted, compressed DBs OFFSITE for additional security. Since disk is so cheap, I lock my production database tables, run mysqldump to output to another drive, then unlock, then run gzip to compress the snapshot. I've only got ~50 MB in the database, so it doesn't take very long.
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• database backups | David Johnson | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Vivek Khera | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Peter Carter | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Ed Carp | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Fraser MacKenzie | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | (Martin Koistinen) | 23 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Vivek Khera | 24 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Ed Carp | 24 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Ed Carp | 24 Mar |
• Re: database backups | Christian Stocker | 24 Mar |