> From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <[email protected]>
> 
> Go ahead and stop Apache, and if you haven't already, make a disk copy of
> your mysql data directory for backups.

Minor point, but I don’t know how much the OP knows about MySQL: be sure to 
stop mysql, too! Otherwise, a disk copy of the database may not be in a 
recoverable state.

The BEST thing is to use mysqldump to make a “source code” dump of your 
database.

:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::


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