On Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Wesley M. wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to backup our mailserver(4.7) in production.
> I read :
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS
>
Much simpler to:
> Do a mysqldump and direct to a known backup location
> Use rsnapshot to backup all of your data (including the email system,
home, and the mysqlbackup)
mysqldump will provide a 'known state' of the database, which will make a
restore possible; backing up files will only work if you shut down mysql
during the backup process - something not realistic for a production
server.
Lee
