Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple nightly script?

[David Kempe]

Yes these are true - however I have had reasonable success with 
un-dumped mysql files - you loose uncommitted transactions but generally 
it has been acceptable...
Anyway - remember to use the --rsyncable switch to gzip (you may need to 
modify automysqlbackup). it lets rdiff-backup diff the .tar.gz files of 
the database dumps much more efficiently. Not all gzips have this 
switch, and even more dont even have it in the man page....

dave

Will Prater wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
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> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:15:03PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > FYI: I find it interesting that what I'm backing up is a small 
> > > intranet Ruby
> > > on Rails site and that your script is written in Ruby.  We're still 
> > > learning
> > > basic ruby around here, so it will be interesting to go thru your 
> > > script and
> > > try to understand it.
> >
> > Just remember that rdiff-backup generally won't be a useful way to
> > backup your database.
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> True, we use something like this every few hours:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
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