This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy pg_dump is an effective tool to backup postgres database. It creates a *.sql file with CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, and COPY SQL statements of source database. To restore these dumps psql command is enough. Using pg_dump, you can backup a local database and restore it on a [...]
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mysqldump is an effective tool to backup MySQL database. It creates a *.sql file with DROP table, CREATE table and INSERT into sql-statements of the source database. To restore the database, execute the *.sql file on destination database. For MyISAM, use mysqlhotcopy method that we explained earlier, as it is faster for MyISAM tables. Using [...]
mysqlhotcopy is a perl script that comes with MySQL installation. This locks the table, flush the table and then performs a copy of the database. You can also use the mysqlhotcopy to automatically copy the backup directly to another server using scp . 1. mysqlhotcopy command: [local-host]# /usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy -u root -p My2Secure$Password sugarcrm /home/backup/database --allowold [...]
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