On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:30:57PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> > Here's a perl script I used to dump all the tables separately.
> > I'm not sure most of options do work there, I didn't test ;-)
> > It won't be hard to make it dump certain tables, I think.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, but the problem with it is that I may end up with
> inconsistencies if data is inserted/updated or deleted in one of the tables
> during the backup, so I would miss the "snapshot"-effect.
You can try to explicitly lock all tables being dumped from the
script before and release them after dump is complete...
But there could be dead-lock conditions.
What will gurus say?
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Fduch M. Pravking
