This tech tip describes, AutoMySQLBackup, a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs.
This is the oddest thing I've seen in any text editor in the three OSes I've used since buying my first home computer in 1993.
Short version: "where's the switch?"
the xed GUI (version 1.0.6) appears to have no Option to keep it from creating backups (~-marked files) if a text or ASCII file... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to make a Shell Script using which I will update around 10K records in MySQL db each night. For that, I am currently doing the following command in FOR LOOP:
mysql -D $MASTER_DB_NAME -h $MASTER_DB_HOST -u $MASTER_DB_USER -p$MASTER_DB_PASSWD -e "$SQL_Query"
This command is... (2 Replies)
Hey everyone. Thanks for looking at this.
I'm trying to create a table with the dynamic name of TableName + today's date.
My variables are all happily created but the system chokes when I try to create the new table name example:
Set @BFBW = CONCAT("BFBW", CURDATE());
Select @BFBW;
... (2 Replies)
After doing a yum install mysql mysql-server on Fedora 14 I wasn't able to fully install the packages correctly. It installed MySQL 5.1. I was getting the following error when running the:
mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)... (3 Replies)
MySQL on my server is down....
I figured out that the mysqld process isn't running. When I try to run it, it says it can't find mysql.sock
Any suggestions?
Here's what I can't do:
can't be root
don't have physical access (do stuff via SSH)
reinstall MySQL (need to keep the current MySQL... (8 Replies)
mysqlshow(1) MySQL database mysqlshow(1)NAME
mysqlshow
- Shows the structure of a mysql database (databases,tables and columns)
USAGE
shell> mysqlshow [OPTIONS] [database [table [column]]]
SYNOPSIS
mysqlshow [-#|--debug=...] [-?|--help] [-c|--character-sets-dir=...] [-C|--compress] [-h|--host=...] [-i|--status] [-k|--keys]
[-p|--password[=...]] [-P|--port=...] [-S|--socket=...] [-u|--user=#] [-V|--version]
DESCRIPTION
-#|--debug=...
output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename`
-?|--help
display help and exit
-c|--character-sets-dir=...
Directory where character sets are
-C|--compress
Use compression in server/client protocol
-h|--host=...
connect to host
-i|--status
Shows a lot of extra information about each table
-k|--keys
show keys for table
-p|--password[=...]
password to use when connecting to server If password is not given it's asked from the tty.
-P|--port=...
Port number to use for connection
-S|--socket=...
Socket file to use for connection
-u|--user=#
user for login if not current user
-V|--version
output version information and exit
NOTE
If last argument contains a shell or SQL wildcard (*,?,% or _) then only what's matched by the wildcard is shown. If no database is given
then all matching databases are shown. If no table is given then all matching tables in database are shown If no column is given then all
matching columns and columntypes in table are shown
SEE ALSO isamchk(1), isamlog(1), mysql(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysql_fix_privi-
lege_tables(1), mysql_zap(1), perror(1), replace(1)
For more information please refer to the MySQL reference manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online
at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/
BUGS
Please refer to http://bugs.mysql.com/ to report bugs.
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 4.0.24 Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@mysql.com), MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/). This software comes with no
warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mercur-
media.com)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+------------------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+------------------------------------+
|Availability | SUNWmysqlr, SUNWmysqlu, SUNWmysqlt |
+--------------------+------------------------------------+
|Interface Stability | External |
+--------------------+------------------------------------+
NOTES
Source for mysql is available on http://opensolaris.org.
MySQL 4.0 19 December 2000 mysqlshow(1)