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Sounds cool. I currently run a script called automysqlbackup.sh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/), my db is 570meg gzip. I then rsync my site to a local ubuntu box which in turn brings down the dumped db. I extract the db's from time to time and they extract without error. I also have used the dbs to build dev servers. I have not run into any problems so far. Do you think this is ok? I am also wondering about stopping http, even if you do this are there still not sessions attached to the mysql db? Does stopping http nuke all connections to the db? I also run lightspeed webserver so does my command to stop that before my backup differ? Thanks!