From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 5:46:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F3737B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay01.tc.dsvr.net (smtp-relay01.tc.dsvr.net [212.69.192.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922CA43EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@stealthnet.co.uk) Received: from [212.69.208.113] (helo=stealthnet.co.uk) by smtp-relay01.tc.dsvr.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #3) id 18NvZb-00046k-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:19 +0000 Received: from stealthnet.co.uk (hidden-user@[81.6.195.82]) by stealthnet.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBGDkJ009146 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:19 GMT Message-ID: <3DFDD928.1060901@stealthnet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:16 +0000 From: James Green User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: portupgrading mysql-server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm sure this must be covered already, but google knows nothing of it! How does one portupgrade mysql-server without having to dump it's databases first? If you're running a busy server with hundreds of megs of databases I'm sure the admin wouldn't want to dump, uninstall, install newest, then restore the databases, particularly if like me he's merely putting a security fixed release in. I might understand it if there was db file structure changes or other serious risks, but for a minor version upgrade? Thanks, James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message