Mauro, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauro Marcellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: InnoDB Backups
> ------=_NextPart_000_00CE_01C3E67E.9D867B90 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I have made a couple of other postings related to this but I guess my > question is: > > Can I backup InnoDB tables (binary files) using an open file agent? what do you mean by an open file agent? You cannot just copy the ibdata files and ib_logfiles as is, because they would be inconsistent. A commercial tool to make an online (= hot) binary backup is InnoDB Hot Backup. A free way to make an online backup is to use mysqldump. > If yes...and I am using Automatic COMMITs my backup will be current? > > If I am not using Automatic COMMITs then my backup will contain data = > up > to the last COMMIT (In other words, data since the last COMMIT will not > be included in the backup. Is this true? > > I appreciate any guidance...Thanks Much! > > Mauro Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy http://www.innodb.com Foreign keys, transactions, and row level locking for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables Order MySQL technical support from https://order.mysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
