[Opensim-users] Database backups, recommended methods

[InuYasha Meiji]

As for myself I simply made a winods batch file, instructing windows to 
perform a list of commends.   I called MySQL Backup.  A file I run 
manualy.  It contans this:

cd /.
cd program files
cd MySQL
cd MySQL Server 5.1
cd bin
mysqldump -u <root user name> -p<your password> --databases opensim 
 >\tmp\opensim.sql

mysqldump comes with mysql 5.1 and higher, this batch file simply sends 
commands to find it in my installed MYSQL directory where mysqldump 
resides and gets all of my opwnsim's data, tables and all and places it 
as a sql file into my TMP directory.  Then I use a program like 7zip to 
compress it to a 7z file that I burn to a DVD or later once the backup 
becomes to large a set of DVD spanned across several disk using 7zip.

To restore my database I made another batch file I created and lucky me, 
I only had to use once.  It does prove that it worked though.  It looks 
like this.

cd /.
cd program files
cd MySQL
cd MySQL Server 5.1
cd bin
mysql -u <root user name. -p<your password> opensim < /tmp/opensim.sql


And this restores it for me.  Once I unzip the sql file and place it in 
my tmp directory folder.  Of corse ,root user is your root user name, 
and the password too.  I took mine out for security reasons.

Good luck, I wish you only the best.
InuYasha.




On 6/7/2011 8:36 PM, Mimetic Core wrote:
> HI Missyfitz,
>
> Many people will have their own recommendations for backing up 
> databases, all relative to their own experience levels.  As far as I'm 
> concerned (even as a seasoned tech) tasks like database management 
> should be easy and require as little of our precious time as 
> possible.  There's a great web-based tool for backing up databases 
> that I use and highly recommend to anyone of any experience level 
> called MySQLDumper.  It's open source and can be found here:
>
> http://www.mysqldumper.net
>
> I won't go into too many details as you can read about them for 
> yourself, but I will say that it can back up single/multiple databases 
> and compress them which makes archiving them very easy.  It takes 
> about 1 minute to install and has a fairly straightforward interface.  
> It does require a functional web server, preferably on the same 
> machine as your SQL database(s) which is usually the case.
>
> Check it out.  If you don't get all the info you need from the site, 
> I'll be happy to help you in any way I can as I've been using 
> MySQLDumper for some time now.  Cheers.
>
> core
>
> On 6/7/2011 5:12 PM, missyfitz wrote:
>> What is the recommended method(s) for doing a database backup? Is it 
>> simply a
>> matter of backing up the mySQL database file to external storage or 
>> dvd, or
>> is there some method for exporting all the tables to a text file? 
>> I've seen
>> reference to the latter someplace, but don't have it bookmarked and 
>> am not
>> sure if that's the better way to go, or possibly the only way to go...
>>
>> Am I safe simply archiving the mySQL database file itself, or should 
>> I be
>> using some method to export all the tables / data to a separate file and
>> then archiving that file? If so, can you describe briefly how to do the
>> export to grab all the database data, or point me in the right 
>> direction?
>> Also, is there an automated way (WinXP) to do this, say, every 6 
>> hours, or
>> is it best done manually?
>>
>> (I'm a mySQL novice, as I'm sure many people here are, so I think 
>> this info
>> clearly outlined would be beneficial to a lot of us)
>>
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