ce360469d3a8fbd4b54ffa823dbba24f79198a2f
galt
  Thu Jun 23 17:20:23 2016 -0700
Adding a backup dump of hgFixed geoIp data tables.

diff --git src/hg/geoIp/README src/hg/geoIp/README
index 3a96a9f..e7a1e7c 100644
--- src/hg/geoIp/README
+++ src/hg/geoIp/README
@@ -179,21 +179,31 @@
 like we did with the middle-east countries, overriding their default continent mappings
 in countryToNode.
 
 
 Not sure yet if I am going to do this again.
 It was what I did last time.
 The idea was to keep a backup of these important tables.
 That way perhaps hgFixed could be used when generating
 other sets of testing tables for redirect.
 
 TODO at the end:
 rename tables to real:
 gbNodeReal
 geoIpNodeReal
 
+
 Make an extra backup of just the git untracked files just in case:
 
 mkdir /hive/data/outside/geoIp/
 gitu | xargs -I X cp X /hive/data/outside/geoIp/
 
 
+Make a backup of the data too:
+
+mkdir /hive/data/outside/geoIp/geoIpTableDumps
+mkdir /hive/data/outside/geoIp/geoIpTableDumps/2016-06-23
+# sadly we need to temporarily make it write-able by all so mysqld can write dump there.
+chmod 777 /hive/data/outside/geoIp/geoIpTableDumps/2016-06-23
+hgsqldump hgFixed -T 2016-06-23 continent continentToNode country countryToContinent countryToNode gbNode geoIpCountry geoIpNode
+chmod 775 /hive/data/outside/geoIp/geoIpTableDumps/2016-06-23
+