On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 06:47 -0700, rrahul wrote: > Any major clients of the two. > You can add you own points too.
Perhaps someone can comment on current MySQL backups procedures. I believe that MySQL used to (still does?) require shutdown to be backed up. I don't know whether this was true for all engines or whether it might have been fixed. Having to shutdown a database to make a backup is a non-starter for anything that other than a toy (or read-only) databases. -Reece -- Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0
