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Re: database backup ???



On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:58:22PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> Yes, I've read recent posts on backups and that tar is my friend ;>
> 
> However, I'm interested in what debian users are doing to backup
> databases, such as mysql and postgresql?

PostgreSQL can dump live databases consistently.  That's what you
should back up.  Otherwise, you *have* to shut down the database
server to get a consistent backup.  I don't know about MySQL...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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