On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:11:21AM +1100, Chris Nolan wrote:
>
> To backup those funky sleek MyISAM tables, you could just issue a
> LOCK TABLE statement or two (LOCK DATABASE?), do a FLUSH and copy
> the files. If I recall correctly, (and I'm sure sirs DuBois and
> Zawodny will find out where I live and deal with me if I don't :-)
> ), this might be how the mysqlhotcopy script works.
Yes, that's basically what mysqlhotcopy does.
Jeremy
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