Re: Best way to backup a 24/7 database

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/17/06, Dan Buettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James, for a truly 24/7 site, MySQL replication is a better answer than mysqlhotcopy. You leave your master running all the time, and replicate data off to another "slave" server, which you back up. For slave backups, you can use any of a few

Re: Best way to backup a 24/7 database

2006-11-17 Thread Dan Buettner
James, for a truly 24/7 site, MySQL replication is a better answer than mysqlhotcopy. You leave your master running all the time, and replicate data off to another "slave" server, which you back up. For slave backups, you can use any of a few different schemes, such as mysqlhotcopy, shut down my