On 24.3.2012 08:43, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > For MySQL backups, I think nobody mentioned doing nightly backups with > mysqldump and then backing them up with rsync or other tools. That is > what I do. No need to stop any services even for a second. With MyISAM tables, to keep integrity, you might want to read lock the tables. Depending on the amount of data a full dump can take a long time. If you have to write while dumping, you cant, and this is a kind of a stopped service ;-) -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120324/53366bed/attachment-0005.sig>