export a large db with terabytes of data
what's the best way to dump a large(terabytes) db?  are there other faster/efficient way besides mysqldump?  this is intended to be zipped, unzipped, and then reimported into another mysql db on another server.
export a large db with terabytes of data
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what's the best way to dump a large(terabytes) db?  are there other faster/efficient way besides mysqldump?  this is intended to be zipped, unzipped, and then reimported into another mysql db on another server.