Recitaldump

The dbdump utility is administrated with the dbdump command. It takes the following arguments.

Note: dbdump must be run as root. For systems with a hidden root account, please precede commands with ’sudo’.

help

Using the help or -h argument will display a list of arguments for all the services.

dbdump help

-D database

This argument is used to specify the name of a database to create the dump from.

dbdump -D southwind

-d directory

This argument is used to specify the name of a directory create the dump from.

dbdump -d /data/application

--r

This argument is used in conjunction with the -d option to recursively process subdirectories.

dbdump -d /data/application

-o outfile

Specify the output backup file name. When you need to restore this file use the dbrestore command. For example to create a backup file of the southwind database called accountants.tar.gz;

dbdump -D southwind -o accountants

-t

This argument is used to add a time stamp to output file name. For example if today was the 2nd of November 2009 at 03:27pm the following command would create a file called southwind-20091102-1527.tar.gz from backing up the southwind database.

dbdump -D southwind -t