On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:36:28PM -0500, Jeremy Tinley wrote: > Howdy, > > Before I run off and try it, can anyone offer up any problems with > doing a LOCK TABLES, FLUSH TABLES and then use tar to backup my 16GB > of DB tables from a slave to a tape?
That should work. I assume you're going to use "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" to do it? Just make sure the session doesn't timeout--MySQL will release the lock when it disconnects. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 24 days, processed 512,136,338 queries (240/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
