On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:07:40PM -0800, Scott Baker wrote:
> That's the way that I do. I setup my server to shutdown the MySQL
> process at 3am, zip up my var directory, and then restart the
> process. Can you copy the data with the server running?
Certainly can.
I do nightly on-line backups with a script that I wrote a while
back. You can safely do it if you flush tables and then obtain a read
lock on the tables.
The `mysqlhotcopy' script does something similar I think. It's
distributed with recent versions of MySQL.
Jeremy
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