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Howdy,
Nope! The Virtual Server is not taken offline during the backup process.
If anyone wanted to do such a thing, they'd probably need to do so by writing a script, and placing that in the "Command to run before backup" option in Scheduled Backups.
-Eric
Thanks Eric - that's what I was hoping for.
@eric
what happens if you have a gigabyte large mysql database?
That's not a problem I have helpmin. But I see that VM has options to run scripts before and after backup. So perhaps you could disable & re-enable the virtual server that way?
I was wondering whether a web site would be down during the database backup.
Howdy,
The "mysqldump" program is used to perform the database dump -- and that can perform a dump while the database is still live.
That does leave open the possibility that data could change during the dump itself, but I haven't run into any significant issues in that regard :-)
However, if that's ever a problem -- using the innodb storage type provides a mechanism that enables mysqldump to dump the database, while maintaining the integrity of the data.
-Eric