On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would > be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, > rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. That's what I'd suggest too, but be warned that performance on that database (if gets to be of any size to be useful) would completely suck... not unlike driving at 90mph and with the ebrake on and constantly up-and-down-shifting... -I