Does your mysql db live on a unix system? If so, why not use
automysqlbackup and just have it dump to your backup system over NFS?

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Lord Sporkton <lordsporkton AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I'm currently backing up mysql by way of dumping the DB to a flat file then
> backing up the flat file. Which works well in most cases except when someone
> has a database that is bigger than 50% of the hdd. Or really bigger than
> around say 35% of the hdd if you account for system files and a reasonable
> amount of free space.
>
> I started thinking, mysqldump streams data into a file and then backuppc
> streams that file for backup. So why not cut out the middle man file and
> just stream right into backuppc? Ive been playing with the backup commands
> but im getting some unexpected results due to what I believe is my lack of
> total understanding of how backuppc actually streams things.
>
> So my overall question is. Does anyone have any clues or hints or ideas on a
> way to modify the backup command such that it calls either mysqldump or a
> script that would generate a file stream at backup time into the backuppc
> tunnel?
>
> So far using the tar backup method seems to be the best idea, I tried
> modifying the tar command but that seemed to screw with the backuppc server
> side. so it looks like im gonig to have to just add something to the tar
> command so it streams the file into the backuppc tar command(as opposed to
> replacing the tar command).
>
> Lawrence
>
>
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