RE: [PHP] Re: MySQL back up

> 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 would be reoback > which is a perl script. You should be able to perform this backup via ftp > controled by a daily cron job. You'll have to shut down the database to do it this way, though. ---John Holmes...