This is like asking bacon or gravy. It depends what flavor of fat you are :). Do you know either language? Which are you more fluent in On 5/19/10, keith smith wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I was looking at some examples on writing a back up script and they are > written in shell script. > > Now I'm wondering what would be better PERL or Shell scripting for doing > stuff like writing a backup script that might stop MySql, make a copy > (dump?) , tar it and maybe move the tarball or place it on another server? > > As you might have gathered from my last couple of questions I am not a sys > admin.  I'm a programmer and am responsible for several servers, so I guess > I need to break down and learn a few more skills. > > Thanks in advance for your insight, advice, and help! > > ------------------------ > > Keith Smith > > > -- Sent from my mobile device James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss