diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 1319688617ea3d7fb18036b304adf404d433dbba..4e7299bed3469e8c014694159c29312b8fc8ffb7 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ aihtdikh -- Allow 'when = XXX' with spaces in .sh files.
 Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> -- rdiff.helper bugfix
 Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> -- RackSpace's CloudFiles support for duplicity
 exobuzz - mysql bugfixes
+Glennie Vignarajah <glennie@glennie.fr> -- mysql bugfix
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 209eacfca4b71bd5e08ca4675b4dd979ac0128ef..f2c9270b087130052b124a6085715768ef97f657 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+version 1.0 -- UNRELEASED
+    handler changes
+	mysql:
+	 . Use --skip-events when backing up the performance_schema database.
+	   (Closes: #673572)
+
 version 1.0-rc1 -- May 15, 2012
     handler changes
 	dup:
diff --git a/handlers/mysql.in b/handlers/mysql.in
index 65deebbc62ac840a6c10c15e263daf37141768a7..6ade49e88e882a495dcb0f02de0f77b750d20ee4 100644
--- a/handlers/mysql.in
+++ b/handlers/mysql.in
@@ -256,10 +256,15 @@ then
    for db in $databases
    do
       DUMP_BASE="$MYSQLDUMP $defaultsfile $sqldumpoptions"
-      if [ "$db" = "information_schema" ] || [ "$db" = "performance_schema" ]
-      then
-         DUMP_BASE="${DUMP_BASE} --skip-lock-tables"
-      fi
+
+      case "$db" in
+         information_schema)
+            DUMP_BASE="${DUMP_BASE} --skip-lock-tables"
+            ;;
+         performance_schema)
+            DUMP_BASE="${DUMP_BASE} --skip-lock-tables --skip-events"
+            ;;
+      esac
 
       # Dumping structure and data
       DUMP="$DUMP_BASE $ignore $db"