We do a nightly shutdown, copy, startup and then backup of our progress 
db's.

we might be able to get a shutdown, backup and startup of the db's in the 
same but the copy give the programmers the opportunity to look at 
yesterdays data.

Karl

veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 01/24/2007 12:49:23 AM:

> Hi Tim
> Snap! same problem! Got a MySQL box and cannot back it up! The agent
> will not talk to it, therefore I configured MYSQL to do its own 
> backup and on the odd occasion, take MYSQL down and take an offline 
> backup of the DB!
> 
> Thats just what I do - may not agree with others !
> 
> 
> Regards
> Simon Weaver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:Tim.Wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au] 
> Sent: 24 January 2007 00:00
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 MySQL backup

> Hi,
> 
> Do we just use the normal NBU MSSQL agent to backup MySQL or is a 
> normal file backup OK? there doesn't seem to be any special agent for 
MySQL.
> 
> Cheers,

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