Re: Disk Imaging backups [Scanned]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Russell Coker wrote:

When you have a big database (or even a database that's a few gigs in size) you don't necessarily want to wait for a dump to be loaded before going live.

In these cases a cold standby and replication may do the trick for you. With MySQL it is not that hard to set up. Regards Peter