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Originally posted by Apollo
Being accessed isn't an issue...if it's being updated than the worst that can happen is your backup will be outdated and not have that new updated information in it...but really that'll be a problem regardless of how you backup the database =)
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Oh yeah, when I tar'ed the whole mysql directory up, I turned off mysql while doing that just to make sure that the files were not being changed as they were being copied. I was not sure if that could even happen, but it was a precaution I took.