Hello John, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 11:01:20 AM, you wrote: DJ> The question is how do people out there DJ> back up their database residing on a server to a local file? Ideally I would DJ> download the database and save on a CD, and be able to restore from this if DJ> the worst happened. Personally, I use mysqldump! Free and works :) Creates a .sql file which mysqlimport can re-create your DB from. .sql file is plain text so can be viewed in a text editor, burnt to CD, zipped, etc. -- Best regards, Richard mailto:rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
