Em 8/7/2013 04:19, lester@... escreveu:

> I know people complain about Firebird's 'strange' centralised user database, and there are times when a user list per database may seem better, but most of the time the applications ARE better supported by user tables in the target database, and access to the database simply controlled by centralised rolls. Certainly I would not want to manage the hundreds of users on my systems as individual database users. I can then simply backup the target database as a cron job ...
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> Is there a similar backup process available for MySQL?
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I use very little MySQL, but when I need to do a back-up I use MySQLDump...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html

From what I see it has the same funcionality as gbak.

Dump the Metadata and then the data.

But generate a simple SQL text file (DML and DDL) statements..

see you !