Lester Caine wrote:

> Does MySQl allow a backup while active yet?

With InnoDB, yes.

> Being able to simply schedule
> backups and mirror them with the rest of the content is my main reason for using
> Firebird ... that and 15+ years of using it.

Even with MyISAM engine, this is not really an issue. MySQL has a
reliable, free replication that comes with the product and it is trivial
to set up. It's much easier to have a live copy of the database that
only lags a couple of seconds. And you can pause the replication to
create a snapshot at any given time while your production database is
running full-speed on a different server.

Regards,

--
Milan Babuskov

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