Greetings, I've been looking at the backup/recover related discussions in the list archives for a while. Seems to me most people use either mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy. We don't have a good MySQL backup scheme in place yet. Now I have some questions based on my reading.
How do I know how each table was created if using mysqlhotcopy solely if recovery needs to re-create the tables? On the other side, my concern about just using mysqldump is it may take long to backup and recover. The size of all the databases we want to back up is about 5G. We can only allow the databases unavailable for access for a couple of minutes at most if downtime can not be avoided completely. So I'm thinking about making use of both mysqldump and mysqlhotcopy together. By that I mean using mysqldump to dump table structures only (without any data) once a week so I can know how the tables were created in the first place and using mysqlhotcopy to backup actual database binary files every day. How bad is my idea? Thanks in advance for sharing experiences, Bing -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
