According to the O'Reilly book, you can use msqldump to dump the
databases to files.

If you don't have the disk space (even doing one at a time, then
backing up to tape), you can dump to a named pipe (fifo), and back
that up.  However, I don't remember if NBU can restore TO a pipe or
not, so you may need extra disk in case of restore.  Even if NBU can
restore to a pipe, that'll only work if msql reads the dump only
sequentially on restore.

I haven't done this with msql, but I have with a couple other
databases.

Then again, if you can take a cold backup, that would be good too.

Todd Suiter writes:
> Okay, need some advice.
> 
> I've got 1.5TB worth of msql data to backup with NBU 3.4.x. Running a GigE
> attached Sun 220R (solaris 7), and 2 atl p1000's fully loaded(8 drives) 
> dlt's. How do I set this thing up to backup?
> 
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