[rt-users] backing up db

Adriaan Peeters apeeters at pi.be
Thu Apr 5 11:14:38 EDT 2001


> This is always a good idea.  Just for the heck of it, IMHO it is good
practice to do:
> mysqldump -u<root user> -p<password> -A | gzip > database_backup.gz


I see only one problem with this:  Anyone who does a ps on your machine is
able to see your rootpassword :(

Regards,
Adriaan Peeters





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