Best way to archive live MySQL database

Question

We have a live MySQL database that is 99% INSERTs, around 100 per second. We want to archive the data each day so that we can run queries on it without affecting the main, l

Answer 1

Sounds like replication is the best solution for this. After the initial sync the slave gets updates via the Binary Log, thus not affecting the master DB at all.

More on replication.