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How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

mylvmbackup
is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s
snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a
read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates
a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and
unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian
Lenny server.

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