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authorMicah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>2008-07-06 17:58:52 +0000
committerMicah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>2008-07-06 17:58:52 +0000
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clarify how the nodata option should be specified in the config file for mysql
-rw-r--r--examples/example.mysql6
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diff --git a/examples/example.mysql b/examples/example.mysql
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--- 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