On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 14:35, Bogdan Cristea <crist...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2011 20:31:22 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Feb 28, 2011, at 13:27, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> > I am just asked if it is possible to put the changes of MySQL >> > databases in svn. I could of-course export the table definitions and >> > store those in svn. I was just wondering if there is a better way? >> >> If you're looking for something automated, that's probably a pretty >> complicated topic. >> >> Whenever I change my MySQL database, I do then manually run a script that >> saves the schema to a file, then I commit that file to my Subversion >> repository. I try to limit myself to one database change at a time, so >> that I can write reasonable commit messages. > > I am wondering the same thing, how to automate database backup. There is a > tool in Linux for automatic database backup, but it seems quite buggy. I have > been able to backup my databases using a bash script and a pre commit hook > could be the next thing to do, but still no automation there.
Subversion is not a backup system.
