Comments on: Tool of the Day: rsnapshot http://openquery.com/blog/tool-day-rsnapshot About MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB and more! Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lenz Grimmer http://openquery.com/blog/tool-day-rsnapshot/comment-page-1#comment-1957 Lenz Grimmer Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:07:39 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=946#comment-1957 > Even if you stop all write activity and issue “flush tables"? > Doesn’t it ensure the database integrity on disk? Only if you are using MyISAM tables only. If you use InnoDB and MyISAM in parallel, your backup will be inconsistent. > Even if you stop all write activity and issue “flush tables”?
> Doesn’t it ensure the database integrity on disk?

Only if you are using MyISAM tables only. If you use InnoDB and MyISAM in parallel, your backup will be inconsistent.

]]> By: figvam http://openquery.com/blog/tool-day-rsnapshot/comment-page-1#comment-1953 figvam Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:46:18 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=946#comment-1953 Sorry for arguing again, but: > In the context of MySQL, you can’t just do a filesystem copy of your MySQL data/logs, that would be inconsistent and broken. Even if you stop all write activity and issue "flush tables"? Doesn't it ensure the database integrity on disk? Sorry for arguing again, but:
> In the context of MySQL, you can’t just do a filesystem copy of your MySQL data/logs, that would be inconsistent and broken.

Even if you stop all write activity and issue “flush tables”? Doesn’t it ensure the database integrity on disk?

]]> By: Lenz Grimmer http://openquery.com/blog/tool-day-rsnapshot/comment-page-1#comment-1952 Lenz Grimmer Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:43:11 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=946#comment-1952 Yes, rsnapshot is neat, I just find it a bit difficult to configure/set up. There is a similar tool named "rsnap", which uses a similar approach: http://daniel.lorch.cc/projects/rsnap/ FWIW, mylvmbackup supports rsnap as well :) Yes, rsnapshot is neat, I just find it a bit difficult to configure/set up. There is a similar tool named “rsnap”, which uses a similar approach:

http://daniel.lorch.cc/projects/rsnap/

FWIW, mylvmbackup supports rsnap as well :)

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