Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-10 Thread Ken
Okay, I took out all the reason for error, I took the variables out of the code and replaced them with the actual values. I do not execute the gzip function. All I get is an empty file. Also I made sure the back up directory is set to 777. Now phpMySQLAdmin will perform the same function, so ther

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-10 Thread Daniel Masson
- Soluciones web para internet e intranet - Asesoría y Soporte Técnico - Licenciamiento de Software -Mensaje original- De: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: miércoles, 09 de octubre de 2002 22:36 Para: [

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-10 Thread John W. Holmes
> Okay here is the new code and this is still not working. > > > require("./config.php"); > > $sqlserver = $server1; > $sqlusername = $username1; > $sqlpassword = $password1; > $sqldatabase = $database1; > > //** > $nam_bak=date('D,d-m-Y'); Can you have a filename

Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-09 Thread Owen Prime
Haven't really been following this thread but you may want to make sure that 1. mysqldump & gzip are executable by apache 2. $backupdir is writeable by apache 3. You have taken into consideration your php safe mode settings Cheers, Owen Prime http://www.noggin.com.au Ken wrote: > Okay here is

Re: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-09 Thread Ken
Okay here is the new code and this is still not working. $backupdir/$nam.sql"); exec("gzip $backupdir/$nam.sql"); ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-09 Thread Daniel Masson
I agree everything, but Im not very sure if this is going to work: > $backup=@passthru("mysqldump --opt \"$sqldatabase\" > > $backupdir/$nam.sql"); You need to send mysqldump the username and password. Syntax is Mysqldump -uuser -ppassword databasename > fi

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up > > Here is the code I tired to use: > > > session_start(); You don't need to start a session... > require("./config.ph

RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

2002-10-08 Thread John W. Holmes
> Why don't you just do a hard backup of the files from the db. Find out the > location of the data folder where thd db saves its tables, perform a tar > cvzf data_folder and then pipe it directly to the user for download via > http. > > Havent tryed it that way, but should work. Another thing wo