Summary: chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)

1999-10-12 Thread Eli Marmor
"chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)". As you could learn from the thread, it is not the case of black and white. Most (or all) backup packages don't support DBMSs directly, and you must stop/lock the database temporarily before starting the backup. Not to mention incremental ba

Re: chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)

1999-10-11 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. try using dump instead of tar, this is really ment for backup Speaking about backuping, and also about databases like MySQL (in another linux-il thread), let me ask you (you=linux-il subscribers) to share your experience with backuping file-systems which include

Re[2]: chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)

1999-10-11 Thread Evgeny Stambulchik
Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking about backuping, and also about databases like MySQL (in another linux-il thread), let me ask you (you=linux-il subscribers) to share your experience with backuping file-systems which include running databases. I know that there are special