Jeremy Zawodny dijo: > That depends. I don't know if it's "safe" to backup the InnoDB > tablespaces without shutting the server down. I suspect that it's not > because there is no way to force InnoDB to commit all logged > transactions. In practice it may not be a problem, but it could be.
Cool, I now understand better the nature of the limitation. This would be a problem to me, because now I remember it happened to me before. > I'll have to ask the InnoDB developer about that. I will, and came back with answers if there's interest. > If the answer is "yes", then adding support to mysqlsnapshot should be > quite easy. Thank you for your time. I love your MySQL stuff :-) -- .''`. Nothing screams poor workmanship more than wrinkles in the duct tape : :' : `. `' Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (2.4.18 + Ext3) `- www.amayita.com www.malapecora.com www.chicasduras.com