Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/13/07 16:53

kenoli wrote:
> What is the best way to backup a MySQL database aside from what the seb
> server does on its own?
>
> Is there an effective way to write a php script that does this
> periodically, maybe saves the database (in an SQL file??) somewhere
> either on the web server or for downloading?

doing this periodically you need to have access to cron jobs, if you have
access to cron jobs, then you most likely have access to mysqldump whcih you
can use to make backups with, just direct the output to a place where you can
download the file from.

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//Aho

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