On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Gavin Towey <gto...@ffn.com> wrote: > When using innodb, your data is stored in the data/ibdata* files. Copying > the database directory is not a valid backup. > > In the future, I would suggest using mysqldump. However if you want to make > a file-system copy backup with innodb you need to 1. Shutdown the server 2. > Copy *everything* in the data directory 3. Store a copy of your my.ini with > the backup as well. 4. Restart mysql
Do you exclude xtrabackup as a potential solution because he's using Windows (it doesn't build on Windows) or because you have some issue or problem with xtrabackup? I'm not aware of any show-stopper bugs. I'm just curious, because it works well for us. The backup is online with the only lock held occuring while it's copying over the *.frm and *.MY* files, which is not very much for us. -- Regards... Todd -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
