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Seen in #maatkit on Freenode:

I never realized just how terrible recovering MyISAM from a crash can be

Sad but true — it can be pretty painful. This is one of the reasons I pretty much recommend InnoDB (okay, okay, XtraDB) for most data unless it’s read-only.

I’m happy that Lenz Grimmer and Giuseppe Maxia have organized an OpenSQL Camp event in Germany in August. Hooray!

Just thought it was worth pointing out that Percona Xtrabackup is not just for XtraDB. It works great for InnoDB tables, too.

So if mysqldump can’t handle it anymore, LVM snapshots kill your server and you don’t want to buy proprietary backup software, you might take a look at Xtrabackup.