From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 6:13:13 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 9F4FB37B404 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:13:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp7.jaring.my (smtp7.jaring.my [61.6.32.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BD143EC2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaeru@pd.jaring.my) Received: from [61.6.109.62] (j48.crc30.jaring.my [61.6.109.62]) by smtp7.jaring.my (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gBGECgW28986; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:12:43 +0800 (MYT) Subject: Re: portupgrading mysql-server From: Khairil Yusof To: James Green Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3DFDD928.1060901@stealthnet.co.uk> References: <3DFDD928.1060901@stealthnet.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zedWfFbt2eGVFAPARrYV" Organization: Message-Id: <1040047923.478.10.camel@daemon.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 16 Dec 2002 22:12:04 +0800 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 --=-zedWfFbt2eGVFAPARrYV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:46, James Green wrote: > How does one portupgrade mysql-server without having to dump it's=20 > databases first? If you're running a busy server with hundreds of megs=20 > of databases I'm sure the admin wouldn't want to dump, uninstall,=20 > install newest, then restore the databases, particularly if like me he's=20 > merely putting a security fixed release in. portupgrade -m '-DSKIP_INSTALL_DB' mysql-server You might not need to reinstall the server, but it's strongly advised you dump it first anyway in case something goes wrong. ;) --=20 Khairil Yusof --=-zedWfFbt2eGVFAPARrYV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9/d8zDAqnLW/+/X8RAgWBAJ0e79ChGmbPGsecmUuqEQmA53wBpgCgtqMc bxnFApJSKnGbt2mfm7AXX6w= =pZYr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zedWfFbt2eGVFAPARrYV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message