On 16 Mar 2004, at 09:06, Victor Pendleton wrote:
If the directory structure is the same and the snapshot is consistent then
the answer is yes. If you do not want to purchase a commercial utility, one
method is to schedule mysqldump, compress the file and then backup that file
up.
What commercial utilities exist for backups of MySQL instances? For complicated reasons I don't want to go into, most of the "standard" methods for backing up MySQL instances don't work well for us, or at least have significant drawbacks.
Tim
-- Dr Tim Cutts Informatics Systems Group Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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