How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

Posted by falko on Feb 1, 2010 8:18 PM EDT
HowtoForge; By Falko Timme
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mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-back-up-mysql-databases-with-mylvmbackup-on-debian-lenny

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