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Originally Posted by Krofh
Hey,
What's the best way to dump a huge database? Our server tends to crash at the very end of dumping... our site isn't too huge, but still pretty big (360,000+ posts). I haven't been experimenting too much simply because of not wanting to crash the site if I mess it up 
- Jesse
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We use MySQL replication and then a custom script copy the binary *.myd, *.myi, and *.frm. You could use a tool like mysqlhotcopy or mysqlsnapshot to do faster backups than using mysqldump.