From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 4:25:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75E237B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:25:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F0043F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362172F9; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:25:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6842A2FDB04; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:25:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:25:08 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Bill Moran Cc: Brian Henning , freebsd Subject: Re: backup Message-ID: <20030213122508.GB94708@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Moran , Brian Henning , freebsd References: <3E4AA817.7040902@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4AA817.7040902@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # wmoran@potentialtech.com / 2003-02-12 15:01:27 -0500: > Brian Henning wrote: > >I would also like to back up my mysql databases for the same reasons. > >can i tar those up for later use? > > You can, but you should make sure that the MySQL server is shut down > during backup or your database files could be in the middle of an > update while you're backing up. see ${PREFIX}/bin/mysqlhotcopy -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message