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Offline jreed2132Topic starter

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Backing UP MYSQL
« on: March 22, 2010, 02:51:07 PM »
I've been looking around at ways to backup my MYSQL easily.  Is it safe to say to just backup the entire MYSQL folder that contains all the databases for the application.  Or is it safer to run a dump and backup those files?
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Re: Backing UP MYSQL
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 10:04:44 AM »
Depends on a great many things -- two obvious ones are (a) db running? and (b) myisam or innodb?
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Re: Backing UP MYSQL
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 12:20:28 PM »
running - yes
myisam or innodb - myisam
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