I needed a way of backing up mysql without writing a script to lock down the front-end (fancy isdown page), stop the webapp (just a php script that pulls data o

I needed a way of backing up mysql without writing a script to lock down the front-end (fancy isdown page), stop the webapp (just a php script that pulls data out of various APIs), stop mysql, perform the backup, then start everything back up. So I run two instances of mysql, one is PROD and the other is read only replication. I can backup the read only replicated mysql instance without having to stop anything in production. I am looking into the same for my nosql db's right now. Regards,