> Direct copying files is not recommended way to backup databases.
Is this true even for a "dormant" system? I plan to have a pair of
replicated servers. I intended to do backup by stopping the slave, copying
the files, then starting the slave again (at which point I hope it will
catch up with updates while it was off line). Is this not a good idea? It
seems to me the fastest way of getting a clean copy, because it does not
require any access to the internals of the database nor reformatting.
Alec Cawley
mysql, database
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