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[Cliff Hirsch]

I¹m no expert, but it that¹s the case, I believe you can just use
mysqlhotcopy, without stopping the database. Even if it does a lock, it
should be very fast, since its a file copy, not a dump.

On 10/3/07 10:18 AM, "Anthony Wlodarski" <aw at sap8.com> wrote:

> Cliff,
>  
> I believe we use MyISAM and after verifying it with phpMyAdmin all the types
> for our tables are MyISAM.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> 
> Anthony Wlodarski
> Senior Technical Recruiter
> Shulman Fleming & Partners
> 646-285-0500 x230
> aw at sap8.com
>  
> 
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
> Behalf Of Cliff Hirsch
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:04 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Scripting to get a backup of your current MySQL
> database.
>  
> On 10/3/07 9:57 AM, "Anthony Wlodarski" <aw at sap8.com> wrote:
> I was confused on the relevance of this topic but since PHP and MySQL go
> together like PB&J I thought it would be relevant.
>  
> It has gotten to the point that the application that I built for candidate
> tracking is growing astronomically so now I was given the task of backing up
> our data.  So far our Apache/Drupal installation is backed up and SCP¹ed to a
> secure server.  My one big problem is backing up our MySQL database.  Does the
> script ³mysqlhotcopy² have the same drawback as just copy the files manually
> (frm, MYD, MYI) in the sense that the server can¹t be updating anything.  To
> be honest I can¹t guarantee that no one in the office will not be using the
> system at certain times so it might present a problem.  Would it be easier to
> just to script something that follows this logic:
>  
> Pre: rename index.php, copy in temp file with downtime message
>  
> 1.)   Stop daemon.
> 
> 2.)   Copy all the table files *.frm, *.MYD, *.MYI files, tar/gzip them
> 
> 3.)   SCP archive offsite
> 
> 4.)   Delete temp folder
> 
> 5.)   Restart daemon.
> 
>  
> Post: delete temp file, rename file back to index.php
>  
> Is it unrealistic for my office to expect 100% uptime, even at 3:30 am in the
> morning (those whacky recruiters).
>  
> Anthony Wlodarski
> aw at sap8.com
> 
> First off, what engines do you use? Mysqlhotcopy does not work for the Innodb
> engine.

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