Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file

2006-01-12 Thread Hans Nieser
Hi list, For a while I have been doing remote backups from my little server at home (which hosts some personal websites and also serves as my testing webserver) by tarring everything I wanted to be backed up and piping it to another machine on my network with nc(1), for example: On the recie

Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file

2006-01-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
For a while I have been doing remote backups from my little server at home (which hosts some personal websites and also serves as my testing webserver) by tarring everything I wanted to be backed up and piping it to another machine on my network with nc(1), for example: On the recieving machin

RE: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file

2006-01-12 Thread Pietralla, Siegfried P
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Nieser > Sent: Friday, 13 January 2006 10:25 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file > > Hi list, > &

mysql backups (was Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file)

2006-01-13 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Hans Nieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 00:25:14 +0100]: > Among the things being backed up are my mysql database tables. This > made me wonder wether the backup could possibly get borked when mysql > writes to any of the mysql tables while tar is reading from them. Yes. While MySQL is writi

Re: mysql backups (was Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file)

2006-01-14 Thread Hans Nieser
N.J. Thomas wrote: * Hans Nieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 00:25:14 +0100]: Among the things being backed up are my mysql database tables. This made me wonder wether the backup could possibly get borked when mysql writes to any of the mysql tables while tar is reading from them. Yes. Whi

Re: mysql backups (was Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file)

2006-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 4:28:15 +0100, Hans Nieser wrote: > N.J. Thomas wrote: >> * Hans Nieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-13 00:25:14 +0100]: >>> Among the things being backed up are my mysql database tables. This >>> made me wonder wether the backup could possibly get borked when mysql >