The Boston MySQL User Group was lucky enough to get Keith Murphy to speak at the June User Group meeting, about backups.
Links referred to in the presentation:
MyLVMBackup by Lenz Grimmer
http://lenz.homelinux.org/mylvmbackup/
InnoDB Hot Backup:
Prices are at:
http://www.innodb.com/hot-backup/order/
and at the time of this writing are:
1-Year License ? 390 USD$ 605 per server
Perpetual License ? 990 USD$ 1540 per server
At the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo, Chander Kant of Zmanda delivered a keynote on "Radically Simple Backup & Recovery for Live MySQL". Get the slides on the Forge at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008ThursdayNotes#Radically_Simple_Backup_.26_Recovery_for_Live_MySQL
At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Lenz Grimmer spoke about "Performing MySQL Backups Using LVM Snapshots". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#Performing_MySQL_Backups_Using_LVM_Snapshots
The slides for today's presentation at Shmoocon are here:
http://technocation.org/files/doc/2008_02_SecuringDBs.pdf
Just a note so folks at the conference can download them whenever they want. Folks not at the conference can, too but the slides don't give away the whole talk so I don't know how useful they're going to be.....