i have a large myisam table (about 3gb) that is updated once a day in the
middle of the night.
when it is not being updated, is there any reason not to copy it out with
rsync without shutting down the server or flush tables with read lock or
whatever?
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Tom,
For MyISAM tables, as long as you aren't overlapping your update
cycles, I can see nothing wrong with this.
We used to rync to prepare slaves under inndb: do a broken rsync from
the live data files on the master to the archives.. when that is
complete, the result file is quite broken but
