Re: [drupal-support] automatically do database backups?

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Anisa wrote:

So, the other day, my server's database completely crashes. They restored it, but you know.. scary stuff. And of course, while I could imagine files mysteriously disappearing, and kept backups of all that, I never thought about the database, so I was backupless.

But it's a pain to manually do regular backups, any ideas on how to automate it? I use mysql, and normally access it with phpmyadmin. That is, if there are any good ideas that don't involve cron jobs. ^.^:

No cron jobs no automatism.

You could write a script that is executed through cron.php though and use poormanscron.

Cheers, Gerhard