From: Vivek Khera Date: March 23 1999 9:14pm Subject: Re: database backups List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/877 Message-Id: <14072.1056.987020.242009@kci.kciLink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "EC" == Ed Carp writes: EC> As for the potential to lose data consistency, see section 5.4 of EC> the manual for a related discussion on record locking and EC> commit-rollback. Sections EC> 7.23 and 10.10 talk about table locking. But if you're copying the database piece by piece without knowledge of the applications modifying it, then you will have inconsistencies. The application as a whole may not, but the copy may. v. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@stripped Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/