Re: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:05 -0700 8/30/02, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:36:28PM -0500, Jeremy Tinley wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Before I run off and try it, can anyone offer up any problems with >> doing a LOCK TABLES, FLUSH TABLES and then use tar to backup my 16GB >> of DB tables from a slave

Re: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:36:28PM -0500, Jeremy Tinley wrote: > Howdy, > > Before I run off and try it, can anyone offer up any problems with > doing a LOCK TABLES, FLUSH TABLES and then use tar to backup my 16GB > of DB tables from a slave to a tape? That should work. I assume you're going to

RE: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Jeremy Tinley
subsequently deleting it). -J -Original Message- From: Mike Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:14 PM To: Jeremy Tinley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape backups from live slave > b) I have 200 tables. I don't want to have to recreate indexes for

RE: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread William R. Mussatto
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jeremy Tinley wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:02:51 -0500 > From: Jeremy Tinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Tape backups from live slave > > Good question, > > a) The slave does

Re: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Paul DuBois
At 21:13 +0100 8/30/02, Mike Hall wrote: > > b) I have 200 tables. I don't want to have to recreate indexes for >> every table if I have to restore. I'd rather spend an hour restoring >> from tape and let replication catch me up. > >Why would you have to recreate the indexes? The dump will co

Re: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Mike Hall
> b) I have 200 tables. I don't want to have to recreate indexes for > every table if I have to restore. I'd rather spend an hour restoring > from tape and let replication catch me up. Why would you have to recreate the indexes? The dump will contain this information in the CREATE statements.

RE: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Jeremy Tinley
--Original Message- From: William R. Mussatto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 1:57 PM To: Jeremy Tinley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape backups from live slave On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jeremy Tinley wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:36:28 -0500 > From: Jerem

Re: Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread William R. Mussatto
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jeremy Tinley wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:36:28 -0500 > From: Jeremy Tinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tape backups from live slave > > Howdy, > > Before I run off and try it, can anyone offer up any probl

Tape backups from live slave

2002-08-30 Thread Jeremy Tinley
Howdy, Before I run off and try it, can anyone offer up any problems with doing a LOCK TABLES, FLUSH TABLES and then use tar to backup my 16GB of DB tables from a slave to a tape? Currently, I redirect the traffic to another slave, and then shut down this slave to backup the tables and keep repl