We would like to quick copy the active database on our web server to another server on the same domain. Run an inventory script on the copied database to update products, run magento reindex functions on the copied databse and then copy back only the product data and reindexed product data from the updated copied database back to the original server with different table names so it doesn't lock the tables during copy. Once the copy is complete rename the newly copied tables to replace the currently active tables with minimum downtime on the server. An open source project of quick cloning of a database is available here: [login to view URL]