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Ran out of disk space, how to tar without creating copy
I am at 98% of an 8GB SSD, and I have a 3 GB mysql data that I need to gzip and or tar and then download it, so then I can delete it.
How can I tar or gzip the sql (or the mysql tables) so that that ...
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MySQL Upgrade RPM
I have a centos5.5 system and have MySQL 5.0.27 install. Now I want to upgrade this to MySQL 5.5.28(Latest). I have two questions,
What is the difference between RPM(Redhat) which is recommended and ...
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Installing multiple mysql as rpm vs tarball
Which is the suitable way to install multiple mysql servers without affecting the current installation in fedora( rpm or tarball)?
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MySQL needed to download in order to compile from source?
I have Slackware 13.1 and due to some bugs on the current version of the MySQL it comes with, I have to upgrade it. Since Slackware does not have 5.5 and I am upgrading I have decided to go with ...
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running tar completely locks up mysql
I am having a seriously weird issue.
If I tar some random directory with many files or a single large file tar -pcvf files.tar /var/log, mysql gets completely locked up and all mysql connections get ...
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How to recover a server from a tar file
In moodle the LMS you can export courses, as a tar.gz, some one said they were going to give me such a thing. I was suprised by the 6 gb size. I was even more suprised when I extracted it, and found ...
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mysqldump to a tar.gz
Usually after dumping a MySQL database with mysqldump command I immediately tar/gzip the resultant file. I'm looking for a way to do this in one command:
So from this:
mysqldump dbname -u root -p ...
