CHaidvogel (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
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I am looking for some suggestions. I need to come up with an automatic
or simple backup software for my MySQL db. I have tried using the
backup fuctionality of the MySQL Admin tool
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There are several admin tools around. What exactly are you talking
about?
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but all it does is dump a HUGE txt file. |
Probably a SQL dump of your database. What is your problem with that?
The only hard requirement for a backup: you must be able to restore
your data from it. Did you try that? Did it fail?
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I prefer FREE solutions. The server as well as this
solution would be running on a Windoex (XP Pro) system. |
http://www.google.com/search?q=mysql windows free backup tool
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