> Not quite. Having a separate slave database server to do the heavy > work > of backups has no impact on the master database during the backup > period. Therefore the master database is always at "normal speed".
Well, one can also do that with a filesystem based storage, you just need something similar to the MySQL replication for flat files. DRDB for example. _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail@dbmail.org http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
