Here is the notes from MySQL online backup in 6.0 session by Dr. Charles A. Bell, the Author of MySQL Expert book.
- Introduction
- SQL Driven, run from any client
- backup to localhost
- new security privileges for backup/restore
- blocking restore
- non-blocking backup for Innodb, Falcon etc
- Overview
- protection and restore
- basic functionality of backup and restore available now
- db level -> table, views, sps, functions, … are supported
- 6.0.5 has it already, try it
- source code is another way to look into it
- Design
- ent level consistency between engines
- default driver …