Backing up slave

[Benny Pei]

Hi,

I am running 5.0.15 on Sun with one master and one slave. Could someone tell me whether I am going to the right direction to backup our slave database. We are going to take a read lock on the slave and backup all the files from the directory and resume slave. We have both MYISAM and Innodb engines tables in the databases.

This is the plan I would like to follow:

1. stop slave thread
2. flush table with readlock
3. tar/zip up all the files in datadir and innodb_data_home_dir + innodb_log_group_home_dir
4. flush logs
5. unlock tables
6. start slave

Could someone tell me whether this is correct? anything else I need to copy?

thanks,

benny