Li Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I would like to perform database backup while the server is running. I
> don't want to use mysqldump as the tables are huge. So I consider to use
> BACKUP TABLE sql command to perform it. In addition, I find that this
> command only backups the .MYD and .frm, i.e. no .MYI files will be kept.
> What can I perform a better approach to have all stuffs without stop the
> server.
mysqldump.
So, your tables are huge - would you rather have an incomplete backup of your data?
Besides, filtering the output of mysqldump through gzip reduces the output quite a bit.
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