You are assuming that the database is one table of 5.000 gigabyte, and not 5.000 tables of
one gigabyte; and that the backup needs to be consistent :-p
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@stripped>
> To: mysql@stripped
> Sent: Monday, 21 March, 2011 12:44:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Question about Backup
>
> Forget mysqldump because TABLE LOCKS for so hughe databases
> I would setup a replication-slave because you can stop
> the salave and make a filesystem-backup of the whole db-folder
> while the production server is online, we do this with our
> dbmail-server since 2009
>
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