Re: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-18 Thread Brent Clark
On 17/12/2009 17:46, mos wrote: Load Data ... is still going to be much faster. Mike Hiya If you using on Linux and using LVM, look at mylvmbackup. HTH Brent Clark -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-17 Thread Jay Ess
Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, I've got a fairly large set of databases I'm backing up each Friday. The dump takes about 12.5h to finish, generating a ~172 GB file. When I try to load it though, *after* manually dumping the old databases, it takes 1.5~2 days to load the same databases. I am

Re: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-17 Thread mos
At 03:59 AM 12/17/2009, you wrote: Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, I've got a fairly large set of databases I'm backing up each Friday. The dump takes about 12.5h to finish, generating a ~172 GB file. When I try to load it though, *after* manually dumping the old databases, it takes 1.5~2 days

RE: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-16 Thread Gavin Towey
There are scripts out there such at the Maatkit mk-parallel-dump/restore that can speed up this process by running in parallel. However if you're doing this every week on that large of a dataset, I'd just use filesystem snapshots. You're backup/restore would then only take as long as it takes

Re: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-16 Thread Madison Kelly
Gavin Towey wrote: There are scripts out there such at the Maatkit mk-parallel-dump/restore that can speed up this process by running in parallel. However if you're doing this every week on that large of a dataset, I'd just use filesystem snapshots. You're backup/restore would then only take

RE: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-16 Thread Gavin Towey
: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Importing large databases faster Gavin Towey wrote: There are scripts out there such at the Maatkit mk-parallel-dump/restore that can speed up this process by running in parallel. However if you're doing this every week on that large of a dataset, I'd just use

Re: Importing large databases faster

2009-12-16 Thread Shawn Green
Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, I've got a fairly large set of databases I'm backing up each Friday. The dump takes about 12.5h to finish, generating a ~172 GB file. When I try to load it though, *after* manually dumping the old databases, it takes 1.5~2 days to load the same databases. I am