The way I am planning on doing it is setting up another server that I replicated to
and backing that server up. I would like to hear how other people are backing up 
servers
without interupting service.

Dave
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:50:06PM -0600, Matthew Walker wrote:
> What's the best way of doing a hot backup on a database? Our server is
> set up in such a way that it's not a simple matter to shut down
> apache/mysql and do the backup then. So, is it safe to just copy the
> mysql directories, or is there some recommended procedure for this?
> 
> Matthew Walker
> System Administrator
> Mountain Top Herbs
> 
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