Comments - Full Backup and Restore with Mariabackup
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Is it really necessary to stop the MariaDB Server process before restoring files into the datadir, even if that directory is not empty (expecting to only add new files inside it, and not override any existing file of course)?
I mean, the MariaDB Server process seems to scan the datadir contents only on start.
If new files are copied into it while the process is running, they don't seem to be taken in account before the process is restarted.
Not needing to stop the server (and rather just restart it at end) should be a big advantage in terms of server unavailability time.
And my own tests running that way didn't raise any problems doing that.
But using only MyISAM tables, I admit.