On 01/27/2012 04:05 AM, Jérôme Blion wrote:
> For huge databases, a dump is really too slow to restore. mylvmbackup
> can take a consistent snapshot of the database.
> The backup is a bit longer, the backup file is bigger, restore is much
> faster !
Snapshot backups are definitely the way to go if you have that option.
(It's the method I actually use.)
> Anyway, I use mydumper for small databases. I used to use
> mk-parallell-dump until it began to generate OOM errors.
> (maatkit team does not recommend mk-paralle-dump for production use)
Truth to tell, I'm not sure I could in good conscience recommend any of
the maatkit tools for production work. Too many of them too often don't
work or produce useless results.
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