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Originally Posted by Paul M
Points to note;
If you lock the tables then your forum will not be usable during a backup.
On larger databases, a repair can take a long time to run.
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Question: I didn't know that *not* locking the tables during a mysqldump was even an option... In your opinion is it relatively safe, provided that my board is OFF, to not lock tables during a dump? If so then this will be better than MysqlHotCopy for me, which locks the whole shebang and results in dropped/timeout connections even when the board is turned off, during a live backup)...