<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Amr Mostafa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amr.mostafa@egyptdc.com">amr.mostafa@egyptdc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br>Unfortunately, I couldn't find any ready-to-use tools that abstract the mnesia routines described in the document above, making them accessible to the average system administrator.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>As already mentioned backing up mnesia isn't the whole story.<br><br>But the mnesia:backup/1,2 and mnesia:restore/2 functions can take a simple filename as their first parameter and do exactly what you expect for backing up and restoring the same DB on the same Node (for moving stuff around, a bit more effort is required). The documentation could be a little bit more obvious on that, I guess.<br>
<br>Also have a look at the bup.erl in the mnesia examples folder for some of the more complicated scenarios.<br><br>Robby<br><br></div></div>