Re: Monitoring database for changes - backup purposes

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0100, Chris Jewell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, diff would work and is my current plan, but it requires me to
> perform the backup first.  What I needed really was a system by which a
> backup would only be run if there was something that needed backing up.

I believe he meant diffing the files that store the tables.

Another possibility that I think would work would be checking the
last-modified timestamp of all the files in a schema. Though the easiest
way to do that is probably to build a list of any files that have
changed since the last backup and then figure out what schemas they're
in.
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