>Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog.  Just not the problem with TB+ apparent
>sizes. Do you have a uid of -1  - or very, very large uids?

Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla ³ls² and all
are root:root.


>Maybe that was when everyone else took the -1 uid out...

?

>The straightforward approach is to have script on the host that runs
>the mysqldump command so you can use a DumpPreUserCmd like:

>$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /path/to/script.
>and then back up the dump output instead of the live database.  Or if
>downtime is OK you can stop the database, then copy its files.


Thanks, I am now stopping mysql to back up the files. I just restrict the
backup to the time when I have mysql being stopped. I could use the
pre/post commands, but I have enough latitude to be confident about
completion.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com





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Mark Moorcroft
ERC Corp.
650-604-4784
mailto:mark.moorcroft AT nasa DOT gov






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