Cheers for this..

If they did make a agent it would be another veritas cash cow.. Why
isn't there one?? :)

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcelo Bartsch [mailto:mbartsch AT NETGLOBALIS DOT NET] 
> Sent: 15 March 2002 13:37
> To: Timothy J. Arnold
> Cc: Veritas BU
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MySQL
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 09:06, Timothy J. Arnold wrote:
> Timothy,
>       What i do is to exec mysqldump everyday before the 
> backup start, is not
> the best solution, but it works for not to big databases, i use
> something like this:
> 
> -----SCRIPT-----
> #!/bin/bash 
> NFSSERVER=192.168.5.2
> NFSPATH=/remotedb
> 
> for d in `ls -l /var/lib/mysql|grep ^d |awk '{print $9}'|grep -v
> lost+found`; do
>       echo "Backing Up $d"
>       mysqldump --opt $d | gzip -c -f > /dbs/$d.sql.gz
> done
> -----SCRIPT-----
> i run this from cron every night. "It Works For Me"(tm).
> 
> i wish veritas create a MySQL and/or PostgreSQL Agent too. 
> 
> Regards!
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Has anyone ever tried to backup MySQL using NetBackup? I 
> guess I could
> > perform a cold backup by shutting down the server, copying the data
> > files to another disk and bringing MySQL up. Is this the 
> best method?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Tim.
> > 
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