>Perform a hot copy of the databases (using mysqlhotcopy). This also
>seems to take a while, but at least the database server does not have
to
>shutdown. The trouble with this is that it locks the table from writes
when
>it does the copy. Some of my tables take a while to copy (they are
hundreds
>of MBs in size), and are written to quite often, so this option (while
the
>best so far) also has its shortcomings.
>5. Use MySQL replication to create another database server
Perform a mysqlhotcopy on one of the replicas. All the inserts, creates
etc
Should be done on the master anyway, so write locking the tables during
hotcopy
Will not really matter.
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