On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:33:39PM +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > BTW, MySQL versions without transactions are unusable for 365/7/24 > > systems, because you cannot make backup of DB without transaction or > > redo log. > > Huh? People have backed up their MyISAM tables with "mysqlhotcopy" or > something like that for ages. This tool locks all tables and can take ^^^^^ :-) > a significant amount of time for large databases. Since many people > don't want that, they just create a small replication slave used > exclusively for backup.
How sure you with integrity of backup without transaction? For example references between tables... Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html