Re: [PLUG] Server Backup best practices...

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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On 07/17/2012 11:19 AM, Paul Walker wrote:
> +1. grabbing the raw files *might* work, but generally, it's not safe to trust anything that isn't a dump.
> 
> 
> Ugh... _getting_ the dump is a bit of a nightmare

If the database dump is nightmarish how about creating a script to do it on a table-by-table basis?

I've done a shell script like this in the past:

for tablename in table1 table2 table3 table4 table5
do
  mysqldump -u user  --password=thepassword dbname $tablename > backup_${tablename}.sql
done

Obviously won't work if all your data is in one humongous table.

Best of luck!

Eric

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Claude M. Schrader <plug@claudeschrader.com <mailto:plug@claudeschrader.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 11:04 Tue 17 Jul     , Conor Schaefer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Paul Walker <[1]starsinmypockets@gmail.com <mailto:starsinmypockets@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe it's not good practice to trust anything that mysql has written to disk that isn't a fresh dump. Any backup script should perform a dump and back that up. No advice on coaxing better performance out of mysql, sorry.
> 
> +1. grabbing the raw files *might* work, but generally, it's not safe to trust anything that isn't a dump. Claude


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