You could copy the entire mysql directory structure to an isolated area
on disk. This will involve stopping the instance though.
Luke Vanderfluit wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using 4.0.18 and for legacy reasons I can't upgrade that.
>
> However I'm upgrading the database to a new schema.
> I want to copy the database before I make changes to the schema, so
> that if anything goes wrong, I can revert back.
>
> I have a dump file of the database but that is around 5GIG, so takes
> around an hour to restore.
> Is there a quicker way to copy a database other than to do a dump.
>
> Thanks.
> Kind regards.
>
