Save Space When Backing-Up Drupal Database
Submitted by Darren on Fri, 19/12/2008 - 16:58
Here's a quick one. mysqldump is useful for backing up your Drupal website database (also look at mysqlhotcopy for MyISAM only databases). If you use the Drupal search system on your site then you probably have a massive search index. This index often takes up just as much space as the rest of the site, and can always be rebuilt so doesn't need to be backed up. mysqldump includes an option to exclude tables. For example:
