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Originally Posted by georgeyw
Lately i've started getting backups done on my server and every single day when the dbs are being backed up i get about 10+mins of down time.
This REALLY shits me! Who suffers through this?
Any server people able to tell me if this is necessary and if not what I should be asking to be done?
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Some backup systems do this either to capture the databases while they are shut down, or to repair any problems with myisamchk. Are you using a control panel on your server?
I've recently gone through the backup script that comes with DirectAdmin because it does this. It shuts down MySQL in order to scan/repair the DB's, then it starts it back up. After it starts it back up, then it generates dumps. So you can actually modify the mysql module portion of this backup script, and disable the part where it shuts down mysql and runs this check/repair. But if there are any errors in the db it may fail to dump properly.