Re: [Nolug] Looking for an automated FTP backup script for mysqldump

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> But then you'd only have 1 copy of your sqldump on the remote machine.
> Not good if you have to restore from a previous dump.

not necessarily. if he sends daily deltas just like your script

> Also, rsync doesn't work well with compressed files.

I don't know where you get this. rsync works fine. It may not
increase efficiency over plain scp with highly compressed files,
but it works fine.

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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