Re: Best way to backup three live databases

2007-08-01 Thread Ken Jacobs
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:20 PM Subject: Re: Best way to backup three live databases Hi, The best two suggestions I can give you are LVM snapshots for binary backups, or using replication so you can back up the slave. Since you have InnoDB tables, my personal opinion is the safest way to ge

Re: Best way to backup three live databases

2007-07-30 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, The best two suggestions I can give you are LVM snapshots for binary backups, or using replication so you can back up the slave. Since you have InnoDB tables, my personal opinion is the safest way to get a good LVM snapshot is to shut down the server and take the snapshot; you can then b

Best way to backup three live databases

2007-07-30 Thread Daevid Vincent
We've got a production system with three databases. The three databases together represent one logical set of data. The databases contain a mixture of MyISAM and InnoDB tables. What is the best way to backup the entire system (i.e. all three databases) to ensure that I get a coherent snapshot of