Backup MySQL data mini-howto

**Alexandru Ungur** · 12-28-2004, 08:59 AM

If you need advice on how to backup your mysql data, you should read this one:

If you have ever pulled your hair out in frustration over data loss, no doubt the word 'backup' has special meaning in your life. Databases offer a nice way to catalog data, but with the amount of data being trusted into MySQL databases these days, the after-effects of an unwise DROP DATABASE command, an unlucky system crash, or a failed hand-edit of the table structure are catastrophic and can be unrecoverable -- unless you have a backup to restore from.

Read the full story here: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?.../12/23/2320205

**temi** · 12-29-2004, 05:07 PM

I look forward to the day MySQL will have a dummies back up tool which will just require you to click a button and all you backup will be done for you without all this fancy commands in this tutorial.