Thanks everyone for help Richard - you are right not enough info!
So here is info that is missing! Server is out on the internet. not sure of flavour. It is headless and he can only access via the normal "User" tools - ftp, etc. I will clarify tomorrow Michele, now that you know that, do you helpful suggestions still work? Thanks everyone! Ed -----Original Message----- From: Michele Mor <m_...@mail15.com> Reply-to: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> To: peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Some Backup help Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:50:40 +0400 Hi.For MySQL I would download and install MySQL Workbench.You can setup backups and if I'm not wrong,you can schedule them as well.You can create a dump file and save it on your hard drive. Then you can use Easy Backup (or any other backup programs) to copy/move the backup files to a different drive.Usually those backup software allows you to do incremental or differential backups. Your friend should look in the repository for his flavour of Linux.No need to create any script or to learn cron or any other language :-) Michele. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro