> This recipe is intended to minimize the impact on ongoing database > operations by inhibiting writes only during a relatively speedy > operation (creating a snapshot). The long dump operation can ...
This seems to be a rather long winded way of doing this. Why not replicate the database and therefore not have to bring it down ever. I wrote a blog entry about this very thing, and had some interesting comments back on http://blog.spikesource.com/mysql_hotbackup.htm Hope this helps, alan -- Alan Williamson, Technology Evangelist SpikeSource Inc. Daily OS News @ http://compiledby.spikesource.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
