Re: Approach to database backup??

[Paul DuBois]

At 11:15 AM -0500 7/13/99, Ed Carp wrote:
>> After reviewing what I wrote, I concluded that LOCKS are NOT
>> necessay. You can run mysqldump so that it does all the locking /
>> unlocking.
>>
>> Why would you shut down the server ??? Any way it has to be running if
>> mysqldump should be used !!!!
>
>Sorry, I meant that I ran "mysqladmin shutdown" to shut down mysql,
>instead of the whole server.

Huh?
What does mysqladmin shutdown do,if not shut down the server?

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