Hi Steve, You might want to look at FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK. That's a query to run from mysql, but I'm sure you can get it to work in your shell script (you need to maintain the MySQL connection while doing the backup). I don't know much about that, though. I think you just run UNLOCK TABLES when you're finished.
Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sills" Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:17 PM Subject: backup I want to use rsync to backup my db server, how do i lock all the tables for all the db's to read only so i cando my backup, then unlock them again. It needs to be done from the command line, not the mysql program. Anyone have any ideas? I have looked and couldn't find the answer i was looking before. Its running from a shell script, from my backup machine. Its currently setup to shut down the server, however i don't want to have to do this. Thanks in advance. Steve Sills Platnum Computers, President http://www.platnum.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
