Back then when I researched the issue (about a year or so ago), you had to
take the server down to get a consistent backup with the tools provided by
MySQL.
I haven't updated my research since...
ET
Charles Jones writes:
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
>> The final single reason why I went Postgres was backups.
>> Back in the day when I did my research (this may have changed) you could not
>> take a hot backup in MySQL without purchasing a commercial product, as
>> opposite as Postgres that you can simply hot-backup a fully consistent
>> database with pgdump.
>>
> man mysqldump :-)
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