With all the
recent buzz on
Planet MySQL about using
LVM to perform "semi-hot" backups of MySQL on Linux, I remembered that we once created such a Perl script for a server project that we worked on in cooperation with a hardware vendor. As this particular backup method was also mentioned and recommended in my
talk about MySQL backup and security on Linux and the script hasn't actually been publicly available so far, I offered to take over the ownership and release it under the GPL. The first tarball release (0.1) is now available from
this web page (still work in progress), the files are available via SVN from
here as well. Make sure to see the
README and
TODO files for the current status. A man page is included, too. I hope you will find it useful - feedback is very welcome!