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Posted by Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points

MySQL backup

I'm wondering what the best way is to backup my MySQL database. I have access to a second server that does NOT support MySQL. Should I just buy space on another server that does, or is there a way I can dump the contents (into say XML) and then securely transfer those files?

4 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

I use MySQLDumper (http://www.mysqldumper.net/). I have run as a cron job that creates a .gz file. Though I must admit I back up to the same server (i know, I know) you should be easily able to send that compressed file to your other server (if that's not already in MYSQLDumper).

John Wheal
John Wheal
27,969 Points
John Wheal
John Wheal
27,969 Points

I have written a cron job that automatically exports a .sql file of the database. It then copies that data to Amazon Web Services S3.

I recently wrote an article on how to get stared using S3 here http://mytechblog.com/2013/01/getting-started-with-amazon-s3/

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

securely transfer those files

That's what sftp is for.

Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points
Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points

Thanks for all your input. I'm a total n00b at Linux.

I can't seem to install s3cmd on my main server - I get an error about it being a read-only filesystem and as it's a shared server I don't know there's anything I can do about that.

I'll probably try to figure out how to create a cron job that creates an automated backup and transfers to my other server - in the meantime backup manually once a week or so.