From: a.smith
Date: March 15 2011 3:48pm
Subject: Re: Backup Policy
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Hi,

   there is a lot of info on different backup methods here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/backup-methods.html

For example, for incremental backups see "Making Incremental Backups  
by Enabling the Binary Log",

cheers Andy.