>Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog. Just not the problem with TB+ apparent
>sizes. Do you have a uid of -1 - or very, very large uids?
Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla ³ls² and all
are root:root.
>Maybe that was when everyone else took the -1 uid out...
?
>The straightforward approach is to have script on the host that runs
>the mysqldump command so you can use a DumpPreUserCmd like:
>$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /path/to/script.
>and then back up the dump output instead of the live database. Or if
>downtime is OK you can stop the database, then copy its files.
Thanks, I am now stopping mysql to back up the files. I just restrict the
backup to the time when I have mysql being stopped. I could use the
pre/post commands, but I have enough latitude to be confident about
completion.
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Les Mikesell
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Mark Moorcroft
ERC Corp.
650-604-4784
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