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Not so much of a 'how do I?' as 'why is this?'

Anyhow....

Backed up via cp a few days ago - individual tables added up to around 70mb.

Tonight backed up via phpMySQL ( Complete inserts, Extended inserts) and it was 40mb.

Just in case something had corrupted - I deleted the MySQL download and re-downloded 3 times - always 40mb.

Any thoughts on this?

different formats make different sizes. did the phpmadmin have drop table commands? did it have create table statements? did you have it zip the file on the way out?

no no and no - curious eh?

I would have thought the phpMyAdmin would have been a bigger file.

BTW - original post should have read phpmyadmin - not sql - but you knew that

Bet one of them has a lot more whitespace than the other, but 30 megs worth? I doubt it.

Just downloaded again.

From phpMyAdmin, with Complete inserts (but not Extended inserts).

Filesize now 67Mb.

Much closer to the 70Mb filesize of the threads backup.

It's ghosts. I'm sure of it. They're in your machine, stealin your backups.