On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:46:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > ome of the folders I want to backup regularly is > > /var/lib/mysql > > but [...] > Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) cannot be backed up while live. > > and > > Likewise, if there is a high file creation or modification turnover > rate, the storage space required for each new snapshot will be large. > Such will be the case when backing up RDBMS dumps and log files. I like LVM snapshots for this purpose. For MySQL in particular you can also run replication to a slave for backup purposes, but I like the LVM snapshot approach as it works for anything.
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