Page 1 of 1

backup without using mysqldump

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:30 am
by rei
i was told that it takes days if i need to backup a databases with large tables using mysqldump

what other ways i can backup the whole database and recover it in short time?

i heard about myisampack but not too sure about it..
still new to database & mysql..

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:55 am
by feyd
I've never had mysqldump take a while, it was more the file-system not being able to keep up because the dump builds a huge file that slowed things.. Even then, it never took days.. maybe 5 minutes.