Database Startup

[Jeff Vian]

George Lemos wrote:

>>There are probably more elegant solutions, but I lost the 
>>root passwords when I was first learning MySQL.  Since I had 
>>no real data there, renamed the mysql directory holding the 
>>tables to mysql.old and restarted mysql. I then started over 
>>with a fresh DB.  
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>>Backup is a good thing!  I have a cron job that runs every 
>>night and backs up all my dbs:
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>>  0 0 * * * export test2;declare test2=`date|cut -c 
>>1-3`;mysqldump --all-databases -prootpasswordhere |gzip > 
>>/root/sql-backup/all_databases_$test2.sql.gz
>>
>>The files contain everything needed to recreate the databases.
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Why not put this into cron.daily?

>>--
>>   Steve
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>Elegant or not, good tip -- worked for me, thanks!
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