[Box Backup] Using multiple servers

[Martin Ebourne]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:57 +0100, boxbackup at xolphin.nl wrote:
> For my MySQL database I use replication, and I make a daily export of 
> all data with mysqldump. This dump is then being tarred and stored as a 
> .tgz. Is this the recommended method or is it better to leave the .sql 
> as it is, so BoxBackup can transfer only the changes of the export?

I leave my daily dump uncompressed. I've not tested it to see the
difference but suspect that makes more sense.

Box will compress it anyway before transmission. I can't remember if it
diffs before or after compression so it may or not make quite a bit of
difference.

Cheers,

Martin.