We are trying to create a backup system for our MySql databases. We use Perl in 90% of our programming.

We currently have over 225 tables, and most of them have nearly 100k records. Some of the records have comma's, quotes, periods and all kinds of 'characters' therein.

What I need is a way to backup our tables on a regular basis. My question is this, is this (MySQL::Backup) a safe way to copy the data, without it getting data mixed up because of the content of some of the records(like comma's)?

Is this the most efficient way to have my Perl code do it automatically?

I don't want to start using it on our live systems without knowing it's capabilities and limitations, so I would appreciate any feedback you have about it. I have read the doc's on it, but they don't go too much on it's capabilities and data handling of inserts or copied data.

Thanks in Advance for any assistance,
Richard

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