[geeks] Mysql backup questions...

[Kurt Huhn]

On Tue, April 12, 2005 9:25, Brian Dunbar said:

> I see up-thread that some people halt their database, run the backup
> and start the database.  Is halting a MySQL database required?  I've
> restored several times using the above method, no failures noted yet.
>

If you're going to halt the database, you might as well just grab the raw
files/dir.  That's my preferred method for copying mysql databases between
systems - or other databases for that matter (like Oracle)....

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