Hi, I use mysqlhotcopy with good results.
I even tried backing up the db directory without hotcopy'ing it to some
temp and suprisingly this also works, however this db is not
particularly busy.
Hi Luke (& list),
On 04/07/14 01:32, Luke Plant wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't notice "--recover" in the man page.
> It did succeed in removing the error when doing --list-archives, but
> unfortunately the output from that command was empty, so it looks like
> no checkpoint was save
Willem de Groot :
> Hi & thanks to Colin for making tarsnap!
>
> Perhaps this mail belongs on a MySQL list, but as this should be a fairly
> common use case for tarsnap users, I hope a tarsnap+mysql best practice has
> evolved that I could not find ;)
As it is not a MySQL list, I can safely su
Hi Colin,
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't notice "--recover" in the man page.
It did succeed in removing the error when doing --list-archives, but
unfortunately the output from that command was empty, so it looks like
no checkpoint was saved.
Thanks,
Luke
On 07/04/14 01:27, Colin Percival
I see mysql has PITR now. If your version has that and you can enable it,
you may be able to get away with backing up the database while it's
running.
May.
Arnt
On 06. 04. 14 14:32, Willem de Groot wrote:
Hi & thanks to Colin for making tarsnap!
Perhaps this mail belongs on a MySQL list, but as this should be a
fairly common use case for tarsnap users, I hope a tarsnap+mysql best
practice has evolved that I could not find ;)
Does anyone successfully
