> If you've got to make copies to disk then why not just maintain copies on
> disk via replication? Stop the slave, backup the slave, restart the
slave.
In my case, replication is installed to give 24/7 service even if one of
the server dies for some reason. When both master and slave are up, I will
do as you say. But I still want backups even when we are in the failure
mode - master or slave has failed.
Alec
mysql, query
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