> I've implemented this with MySQL before, and it worked extremely well
> (miles beyond mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy). On a given node, you sacrifice a
> short period of availability (less than 0.5 seconds) to get a full,
> consistent snapshot of your EBS volume that can be sent off to S3 in the
> ba
On EC2, it is common and recommended (
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?categoryID=100&externalID=1663)
to use XFS's freeze/thaw functionality to create near-online snapshots of an
EBS volume for MySQL snapshots.
"Besides being a stable, modern, high performance, journalin
