Comments on: Very simple MySQL backup via FTP script http://remy.supertext.ch/2007/11/very-simple-mysql-backup-via-ftp-script/ We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Remy Blaettler http://remy.supertext.ch/2007/11/very-simple-mysql-backup-via-ftp-script/comment-page-1/#comment-8345 Remy Blaettler Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:07:39 +0000 http://remy.supertext.ch/2007/11/very-simple-mysql-backup-via-ftp-script/#comment-8345 I guess a mirrored server would be the way to go. Turning off the server is not really an option I think. I guess a mirrored server would be the way to go. Turning off the server is not really an option I think.

]]> By: Reto Laemmler http://remy.supertext.ch/2007/11/very-simple-mysql-backup-via-ftp-script/comment-page-1/#comment-8342 Reto Laemmler Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:45:57 +0000 http://remy.supertext.ch/2007/11/very-simple-mysql-backup-via-ftp-script/#comment-8342 Your solution is nice and simple. It may not work in the future once you have millions of rows in a table. That raw backup.sql file will take a long time to backup and restore. That's how we did in the days of Xcellery: http://xcellery.blogspot.com/2007/05/powershell-and-amazon-s3.html It's was sort of a hotbackup. We copied the real DB files incl. its log files. You need to quickly turn off the DB server before you copy the files. That's the disadvantage but the backup process goes pretty fast. In the future I would probably simply use a mirrored DB server. Gotta go back to work now. :-) Your solution is nice and simple. It may not work in the future once you have millions of rows in a table. That raw backup.sql file will take a long time to backup and restore.

That’s how we did in the days of Xcellery: http://xcellery.blogspot.com/2007/05/powershell-and-amazon-s3.html

It’s was sort of a hotbackup. We copied the real DB files incl. its log files. You need to quickly turn off the DB server before you copy the files. That’s the disadvantage but the backup process goes pretty fast.

In the future I would probably simply use a mirrored DB server.

Gotta go back to work now. :-)

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