Re: Run Backup from Command Line?

[Bill Karwin]

I would do this by writing a BAT script on a Windows PC, and in the script, invoke the "mysqldump" tool that comes with the MySQL product install (you'll have to install this on the PC, but you don't need to run the MySQL Service to use mysqldump).

Use the "-h hostname" option of mysqldump to connect to your MySQL instance on the Netware machine.

Schedule the execution of the BAT script using the Windows "AT" scheduler.

This is my solution because I haven't used Netware in years. The versions of Netware I used had no easy facility to run commands; everything had to be run as an NLM (Netware Loadable Module) and accessed as a service. I don't know if it's even possible to run a BAT script on Netware 6.5.

Regards,
Bill K.