Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-22 Thread Johan De Meersman
Subject: Re: Question about Backup Forget mysqldump because TABLE LOCKS for so hughe databases I would setup a replication-slave because you can stop the salave and make a filesystem-backup of the whole db-folder while the production server is online, we do this with our dbmail-server since

Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-22 Thread Karen Abgarian
that the database is one table of 5.000 gigabyte, and not 5.000 tables of one gigabyte; and that the backup needs to be consistent :-p - Original Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, 21 March, 2011 12:44:08 PM Subject: Re: Question about

Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-22 Thread Wm Mussatto
Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, 21 March, 2011 12:44:08 PM Subject: Re: Question about Backup Forget mysqldump because TABLE LOCKS for so hughe databases I would setup a replication-slave because you can stop the salave and make

Question about Backup

2011-03-21 Thread Pedro Nuñez
Hi I need set up a backup strategy for a mysql database in a ubuntu server, the database will grow up to a 5TB. What would be the best option ?? Maybe a script that uses mysqldump?? There is a better way to do this? Thanks in advance to all Pedro.

Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Forget mysqldump because TABLE LOCKS for so hughe databases I would setup a replication-slave because you can stop the salave and make a filesystem-backup of the whole db-folder while the production server is online, we do this with our dbmail-server since 2009 Am 21.03.2011 12:23, schrieb Pedro

Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-21 Thread Karen Abgarian
Hi, The statement like 'I need to back up a 5T database' is not a backup strategy. It is intention. There are some specifics that have to be determined to work out a strategy. Going from there, the backup solution can be chosen. The examples of questions one typically asks when

Re: Question about Backup

2011-03-21 Thread Karen Abgarian
That would be the last question :-) Suppose we worked out strategy, lined up the solutions along with their costs and then compare them with our budget. That would be easy to find the one we can afford, and we will know what we could dream about :-). On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Singer