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.
Backup is a good thing! I have a cron job that runs every night and backs up all my dbs:
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.
Why not put this into cron.daily?
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Steve
Elegant or not, good tip -- worked for me, thanks!
