Re: question about mysql backups

Hi, There is a mysql backup class available at the PHP classes Repository: http://spunge.mirrors.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/1066.html I have not tried it yet, so cannot give any review on its use. Erich On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Jake Malone wrote: > hi, > > i have a script (run from cron) which backs up all files in a given > directory and outputs a zip file. what i want to do is backup the database > in the same process and add it to the same zip file. i really like > phpmyadmin's way of backing up the DB, and was wondering if there was an > easy way to do essentially the same thing outside of phpmyadmin (i just need > to save the db structure, tables, and data into a single .sql file). thanks > in advance. > > -jake > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Erich Schroeder Phone: (217)785-0033 Curator, Information Technologies FAX: (217)785-2857 Illinois State Museum GIS Lab email:erich(at)illinois.state.museum http://illinois.state.museum/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------