--- /dev/null
+=== modified file 'scripts/mysqlhotcopy.sh'
+--- scripts/mysqlhotcopy.sh 2008-03-07 20:45:40 +0000
++++ scripts/mysqlhotcopy.sh 2009-03-12 13:06:42 +0000
+@@ -777,7 +777,24 @@ sub get_list_of_tables {
+ } || [];
+ warn "Unable to retrieve list of tables in $db: $@" if $@;
+
+- return (map { $_->[0] } @$tables);
++ my @ignore_tables = ();
++
++ # Ignore tables for the mysql database
++ if ($db eq 'mysql') {
++ @ignore_tables = qw(general_log slow_log schema apply_status);
++ }
++
++ my @res = ();
++ if ($#ignore_tables > 1) {
++ my @tmp = (map { $_->[0] } @$tables);
++ for my $t (@tmp) {
++ push(@res, $t) if not exists { map { $_=>1 } @ignore_tables }->{$t};
++ }
++ } else {
++ @res = (map { $_->[0] } @$tables);
++ }
++
++ return @res;
+ }
+
+ sub quote_names {
+