Hi everyone, I need to back up a big database everydays. Should I code it myself in PHP or is there a good script out there ?
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If you run your server under linux use a cronjob to do it (for example nightly)! Cron could trigger mysqldump (in case you are using MYSQL) backing up your database(s).
Thariama
2010-07-16 08:39:38
Also worth considering if it's MySQL on Linux is http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ -- this again can be triggered by cron, and uses mysqldump, but it stores daily, weekly and monthly backup cycles in a nice structure and is quite configurable.
Matt Gibson
2010-07-16 09:01:53
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If you're using cPanel or Plesk or something then they generally have back-up scripts available to you (but as Chris Aitchison says), how useful any of these answers are depends on the details.
hollsk
2010-07-16 08:40:59