>> So, if you run backups locally to an external disk, you could back up the >> catalog by taking an ascii dump of the database, and copying the dump file >> to the same disk used for actual backup data. > > So Can I just back the directory where the database is? > That is not a good way to backup a database. You need to run mysqldupm instead and backup the text file it generates.
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