title: How to create a point in time architecture in MySQL
body: <p>I read <a href="http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/database-design-a-point-in-time-architecture/">this</a> article on building a point in time architecture for your database. It looks to me as an elegant solution, but the article is allready from some time ago (2007). I was wondering:
  1. Are there any other methods to solve this?
  2. What are the pro's and con's of this and other methods?
  3. Is there a mysql implementation available for these methods that I can re-use?</p>