MySQL backups

[Thomas Charron]

On 10/15/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> Thomas Charron wrote:
> >   Has anyone had experience with using CA backup solutions backing up
> > CVS and MySQL data repositories?
> There are ways (different ones, of course) to do hot backups of MySQL
> while it is online, but they vary with the data storage engine used. As
> several have said, the right technique is to backup the dumps, not the
> actual database files. That's like backing up the swap partition and
> hoping restoring it will bring the machine back to life.

  I know what the options are pretty much.  But they're convinced that
this is the right one.

  Sometimes, I hate IT geeks..  :-D

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-- Thomas