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		bjclark on Jan 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ma.gnolia.com crashes hard -- no backups? Using a slave isn't fool proof either. If someone were to run a malicious command, it gets replicated, and could get backed up before being caught.

joshu on Jan 31, 2009 [–]

I didn't say that. Read what I wrote.

You use the slave so you can shutdown the database and get a consistent file snapshot. Then you do offline backup.

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