Comments on: Showdown: MySQL vs. SQL Server 2005 (Backups Edition)

By: bofe

bofe — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:20:37 +0000

@meregistered You’re right. I’ve always had problems with MySQL’s GUI tools… particularly not wanting to run them on localhost.

The only feature that I see missing from MySQL GUI tools is the ability to clean out your backups on a regular basis.

By: meregistered

meregistered — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:37:27 +0000

Hello have you considered using the MySQL UI tools?

That would be a more likely comparison. And just easy although maybe not as many options.

By: deStone

deStone — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:50:08 +0000

Uh, microsoft cronnie.

By: dmac

dmac — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:31:08 +0000

If you want to automatically purge old MySQL backups based on being N days old you can just slap your dump command into shell script with the following command. Then schedule the shell script via cron.

find /Your_backup/directory -type f -mtime +N -exec rm -rf {} \;

Replace N with the number of days you want to keep on hand. This command uses the timestamps on the file to determine whether or not to delete it.