Posted by Rik on 08/01/07 17:25

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:11:07 +0200, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:53:03 +0000, Bootstrap Bill wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a PHP program to backup and restore a mysql database.
>>
>> I'm using Godaddy to host a forum. Their mysql control panel will only
>> restore a database of two megabytes or less. My database is over 13
>> megabytes in size.
>
> The MySQL client software includes mysqldump which will backup and
> restore
> any MySQL database.
>
> (Hope no one minds me answering a MySQL question in this group)

Well, he asks for a PHP-script, which is on-topic, you give a MySQL
answer, which is also valid (pointing out other things are better for some
purposes then PHP is) :P . Would the OP ask _how_ to use mysqldump it gets
offtopic...

I doubt Godaddy give him access to mysqldump BTW, so quite probably the
solution will be PHP.

I'm sure there are 'out of the box' scripts around which do what the OP
wants. Don't know them though.
--
Rik Wasmus

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