Am 26.07.2011 16:18, schrieb Todd Lyons:
> 1. I did a full copy of the running master database server using > xtrabackup to a backup server via nfs. It took 2 hours, of which the > last 15 minutes did a write lock of the entire server as it copied > over the *.frm files and the few myisam tables. This was the most > troublesome part as it was visible to both users and website owners > :-( why are not using two rsync-runs? the first while mysqld is running the second directly after stop mysqld this way you can be 100% sure that you can start the replication from scratch and your downtime is only a few seconds, best if enough space to have this target on the master-machine because while you take the slow way over the network the master is running with a fresh binlog #!/bin/bash rsync --times --perms --owner --group --recursive --delete-after /mysql_data/ /mysql_backup/ date /sbin/service mysqld stop cd /mysql_data/ rm -f /mysql_data/bin* rsync --times --perms --owner --group --recursive --delete-after /mysql_data/ /mysql_backup/ /sbin/service mysqld start
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