[aklug] Re: Remote backup of MySQL database

From: Marc Grober <marc@interak.com>
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 21:20:14 AKST

On 2/23/11 9:03 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> It's been a few years since I worked much with MySQL, but is there a
> handy (open-source) tool these days for remote backup of a single MySQL
> database? IIRC, mysqldump would do the trick, but it seems on my
> distribution that you have to install the whole bloody MySQL server just
> to get that program. Googling brought up some scripts where you do the
> dump on the remote server, and then copy the file over to your machine,
> but that is a bit less elegant than I would prefer.
>

In the past I have done this via scripts, though I have long thought
about exploring ZRM, but I came across this snappy looking app on
sourceforge... let me know what you think if you decide to explore it....
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmybackup/
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