Re: Proposal: Shopping::Basket.pm - the plan

[Piers Cawley]

David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 06:19:36PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 
> > Nope.  Most proper database servers will allow you to take a backup of the
> > data in a consistent manner whilst it is still being used whereas you have
> > to ensure that your text file isnt being accessed while you copy it to
> > whatever medium you care to do your backups on.
> > 
> > Dont get confused by MySQL and the like. 
> 
> Feh.  Even MySQL lets you take a backup without taking the database
> offline!

Yeah, but you have to lock all the tables while you do it, so if the
backup takes an appreciable length of time you'll could have requests
blocked on it.

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Piers