Forget mysqldump because TABLE LOCKS for so hughe databases
I would setup a replication-slave because you can stop
the salave and make a filesystem-backup of the whole db-folder
while the production server is online, we do this with our
dbmail-server since 2009

Am 21.03.2011 12:23, schrieb Pedro Nuñez:
> Hi
> 
> I need set up a backup strategy  for a mysql database in a ubuntu server,
> the database will grow up to a 5TB.
> What would be the best option ?? Maybe a script that uses mysqldump?? There
> is a better way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance to all
> Pedro.

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