On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 14:35, Bogdan Cristea <cristeab_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2011 20:31:22 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Feb 28, 2011, at 13:27, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> > I am just asked if it is possible to put the changes of MySQL
>> > databases in svn. I could of-course export the table definitions and
>> > store those in svn. I was just wondering if there is a better way?
>>
>> If you're looking for something automated, that's probably a pretty
>> complicated topic.
>>
>> Whenever I change my MySQL database, I do then manually run a script that
>> saves the schema to a file, then I commit that file to my Subversion
>> repository. I try to limit myself to one database change at a time, so
>> that I can write reasonable commit messages.
>
> I am wondering the same thing, how to automate database backup. There is a
> tool in Linux for automatic database backup, but it seems quite buggy. I have
> been able to backup my databases using a bash script and a pre commit hook
> could be the next thing to do, but still no automation there.
Subversion is not a backup system.
Received on 2011-02-28 21:22:03 CET