Disk cloning

[JAmes Atwill]

----- "Jason Edgecombe" <jason at rampaginggeek.com> wrote:

> Brett Delle Grazie wrote:

> > LVM snapshots are fine with MySQL, please check the MySQL manual
> under backups for your particular

For MySQL on LVM, I've been using mylvmbackup with good success. It obtains a write lock to all the databases before performing the snapshot and releases them once it's been taken. 

For InnoDB it runs a log recovery on the snapshot before archiving (which is a nice touch).

   http://lenz.homelinux.org/mylvmbackup/

HTH,

   JAmes

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