Back then when I researched the issue (about a year or so ago), you had to 
take the server down to get a consistent backup with the tools provided by 
MySQL.
I haven't updated my research since...
ET 

 

Charles Jones writes: 

> kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
>> The final single reason why I went Postgres was backups.
>> Back in the day when I did my research (this may have changed) you could not 
>> take a hot backup in MySQL without purchasing a commercial product, as 
>> opposite as Postgres that you can simply hot-backup a fully consistent 
>> database with pgdump. 
>>   
> man mysqldump  :-)
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