[rt-users] Stop RT for Backupprocess

[john s.]

@Thomas 

Thnx Thomas for advice , but at the moment we dont need an E-Mail Service so
it doesn't matter if the service will be shutdown for backup process or not.


furthermore..... Better safe than sorry :)

best regards john 






Thomas Smith-12 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:05 AM, john s. <fireskyer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to Stop and Start RT in order to make an Backup Process.
>>
>>
>> Should i Kill or Stop the RT Process ? Whats the difference  and what
>> does
>> it make more sense?
>>
>> And which processes are belongs to RT?
>>
>>
> I'm not a MySQL expert by any means, but isn't it possible to get a
> quiescent backup of MySQL without stopping/starting any services?
> 
> It's my understanding that one can issue a "read lock" as part of the
> mysqldump command. If this is the case, wouldn't it be less disruptive to
> users since the web and email services would not be shutdown in order to
> perform a backup.
> 
> I have also read that this "read lock" works particularly well when using
> it
> to backup a replica, since this would require zero down time.
> 
> ~ Tom
> 
> 

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