Weber Gyula wrote:

> I'm using mysql slaves on my backup server, with daily snapshots. The
> script make dumps for each table, and a full weekly snapshot. That's
> because the table-based restore script doesn't care the order which makes
> sense if you use view -s or other special things.
> 
> Hovever, i think mysql replication isn't the safest method, so monitoring
> is important in this case.
> 
> I can upload my mysql backup scripts if you'r interested.

Thanks, but I think I'll try dumppreusercmd , 
which has been suggested, first.
Actually, my needs are very slight - 
I just want to backup a single MySQL database
running BackupPC on the same machine.

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