Personally i think he's going to struggle without any administrative access sounds like its a web LAMP server with ftp access and basic terminal access i might be wrong but unless its a server on a local area network that can have packages installed to cope with the backup solutions you require, youre limited as to what can be done not even sure how to packup mysql datbase from net last time i dabbled it basically spat out a long sql script that rebuilt the tables etc but i think i did that via phpmyadmin
sorry if thats not too helpful, i confess to knowing very little On 31 August 2010 17:35, Edward Kerr <e.k...@plumbline.org.uk> wrote: > 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 >
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