<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:clemens@dwf.com">clemens@dwf.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:clemens@dwf.com">clemens@dwf.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Is there any advantage in using one of the mysql backup programs over<br>just taring up /var/lib/mysql/mysql and /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg ?
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<div>-Are you completely shutting down the database before tarring those up?</div>
<div>-Are you guaranteeing that you will be using the EXACT same version of MySQL if you need to do a restore?</div>
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<div>You should ignore the existance of ANY database raw files kept on a filesystem. Pretend they don't exist.</div><br> </div>