Nevermind.  I see that the manual online has this information.  Sigh.  It 
doesn't do what I want unfortunately.  

Best,
Kyle

On Monday 29 January 2001 09:32, Kyle Hayes wrote:
> The manual section on BACKUP does not state what locking behavior the
> command has.  Does it lock all the tables at once that you backup in one
> statement or does it lock them one at a time?
>
> I.e. if I run:
>
> BACKUP foo.bar, foo.baz, foo.blah TO '/tmp/mysqlbackups/'
>
> Will it lock all three tables and then dump them?  I need this kind of
> behavior.  If it locks them one at a time and dumps them one at a time then
> I'll have to use something else.
>
> Additionally, can you RESTORE a backed-up table to a different database.
> I.e. suppose I did the BACKUP line above, can I do this:
>
> RESTORE foo_backup.bar, foo_backup.baz, foo_backup.blah FROM
> '/tmp/mysqlbackups/'
>
> ???
>
> Best,
> Kyle

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