shells and bells

[derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net (Derek Martin)]

Today, Mike Bilow gleaned this insight:

> If your usual backup procedure is run by a cron job, for example, it is up
> to that backup script to run whatever tool or utility the database vendor
> provides to make their database server dump a snapshot to disk.  You
> cannot simply tar up the raw database files, which are kept open while the
> database is in use, and expect to get anything worthwhile.

Guess I don't need to.. :)

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