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Re: rsnapshot and compressed db dumps.: msg#00037

sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general

Subject: Re: rsnapshot and compressed db dumps.

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:53:06PM -0700, Malcolm Frazier wrote:
>
> > I am wondering how rsnapshot works with compressed MySQL dumped files.
> > So I say I dump a database using mysqldump and gzip it up how will
> > rsnapshot rotate that?

Have you tried the --rsyncable option for gzip? It makes the compressed
file more diffable: local changes in the source file result in local
changes in the compressed file.
I don't know whats the best way to exploit this with rsnapshot though.

Roman



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