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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:06:12 -0400
From:      "Mark Bucciarelli" <mark@gaiahost.coop>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fastest way to duplicate production server?
Message-ID:  <20050713020612.GA4921@pooh.hubcapconsulting.com>
In-Reply-To: <018801c58731$0929f8a0$0aae5218@garrincha>
References:  <20050712214555.42683.qmail@web53902.mail.yahoo.com> <018801c58731$0929f8a0$0aae5218@garrincha>

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:28:32PM -0700, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:
> - to copy over mysql data, you must do a " FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" 
> then rsync the data directory over to the test server (/var/db/mysql is the 
> freebsd default). Then you "UNLOCK TABLES" after rsync is done. Start mysql 
> and you are done. Instead of a "flush tables with read lock", you could 
> just stop mysql in the production server. This is just to make sure there 
> is no updates in the tables while you are copying them over.

You can also use the mysqlhotcopy perl script for this task (assuming ISAM
tables).  It is fast.

m



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