There are two ways to do backups.
1. Backup the files themselves.
2. Use mysqldump to dump the data into a text file which can be read in
by MySQL.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/mysqldump.html
We have a database of about 300M it takes 2-3 minutes to do a complete
mysqldump of the data. I would
Hi,
Shut your database down, backup all files, and restart it
If you use InnoDB you can do a hot backup like Oracle (the implementation of InnoDB is
near of Oracle), but it's not free. I can't say more about this, but it's in the
documentation about InnoDB.
You can also keep a
