> Jens Bonerz wrote:

> What I have been basically doing until last week was sending a request
> to my webserver that called a page within phpmyadmin. in this request
> i posted all necessary get variables to initiate a database dump and
> have it sent to my computer (as an sql file).

Why don't you just do (using pubkey auth):

ssh machine 'mysqldump --opt -u username -p password database | gzip -'
> mydump.sql.gz

Going to all the trouble of faking a request to phpmyadmin just seems
like the hard way.

Brian
Received on 2006-03-23