I wanted a fast way to backup an AppDynamics MySQL database directory on windows. The answer was lzop.
Tools
Setup
Set your Enviornment PATH
After installing GoW and extracting lzop.exe set your environment PATH to include the directory where you extracted lzop.exe
Stop AppDynamics Controller and Database
If you are Windows just use the AppDynamics Windows Services for this
Backup Procedure
In this example we will backup the directory D:\AppDynamics to a file named “appd_db.tar.lzo” with the fastest lzop compression level (which is one).
tar -cf - D:\AppDynamics | lzop -1 > appd_db.tar.lzo
Extract the lzo file
To extract the tar file from the lzop file run this command:
lzop -d appd_db.tar.lzo