From 767279869c1b2748245cd946e19448af76051adc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: micah Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:58:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarify how the nodata option should be specified in the config file for mysql git-svn-id: http://code.autistici.org/svn/backupninja/trunk@597 758a04ac-41e6-0310-8a23-8373a73cc35d --- examples/example.mysql | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/examples/example.mysql b/examples/example.mysql index d22cbcb..bd996e7 100644 --- a/examples/example.mysql +++ b/examples/example.mysql @@ -53,12 +53,14 @@ compress = yes # which databases to backup. should either be the word 'all' or a # space separated list of database names. # -# nodata = < table1 table2 table3 > (no default) +# nodata = < db.table1 db.table2 db.table3 > (no default) # only dump the structure for the database tables listed here, this means # no data contained in these tables will be dumped. This is very useful # to backup databases that have tables with large amounts of cache data that # isn't necessary to backup, but you still need the structure to exist -# on a restore +# on a restore. You *must* specify the table as part of a database, such +# as "drupal.cache", where the database name is "drupal" and the table that +# you do not want to dump the data for is called "cache". # # backupdir = < path/to/destination > (default = /var/backups/mysql) # where to dump the backups. hotcopy backups will be in a subdirectory -- 2.30.2