[wellylug] Backing up MySQL databases

Brent Wood pcreso at pcreso.com
Fri Sep 9 17:10:22 NZST 2005


--- Michael Dittmer <michaeld at mercury-projects.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a testing machine that I am running MediaWiki on (seems quite
> cool to play with).
> 
> My question is, how do I backup the MySQL database that MediaWiki uses?
> If it can be scripted, I can use cron to backup the database to another
> system across a network.
> 

All you need to know is at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/backup.html


Brent




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