Certain graphical elements in this forum (such as user's avatars and file attachments) are actually stored in the database instead of in the file system. Is there a way to back these up along with the database? For example, when I make an sql dump file, it obviously doesn't export these elements.
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Jump to Post(she's using mysqldump)
take a look at
http://www2.yo-linux.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=mysqldump
Jump to Posti wouldnt suggest using vb's mysql dump feature either
ive used the ssh mysql dumb quite a fewq times just finemysqldump --opt -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD databasname > /path/to/dump.sql
i honestly never had a problem with it
vb also has a specific table backup if …
Jump to PostRTFM ;-) From the man page linked above:
--opt Same as --add-drop-table --add-locks --all
--extended-insert --quick --lock-tables
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