>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.
Well, I understand that - to do a proper backup, the database must be
quiescent, but if you're running 24/7, you take what you can get :)
Disk mirroring is a much better solution, IMO, but some folks can't afford
the extra expense.
