Duplicate (or backup) SQL server

1veedo · 06-04-2008, 06:48 PM

Bassically I have an sql server on one computer and I want to put it onto another. Both have mysql installed. It would be simple to just copy over the database but a backup and restore would work.

Thanks.

chrism01 · 06-04-2008, 07:17 PM

So what's the qn?

trickykid · 06-05-2008, 02:39 PM

Use mysqldump or shutdown the database and copy the database files over to the new server. Or you can get fancy and setup a master/slave replication to copy over. But yeah, seems like you answered your own question by saying a backup and restore would work.

1veedo · 06-22-2008, 02:08 PM

Where are the files located, trickykid?

trickykid · 06-22-2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by 1veedo

Where are the files located, trickykid?

Well, if you perform the mysqldump yourself, then it's where ever you dumped it too. If you're wanting to just shutdown the database then copy the flat files over, then by default they're in /var/lib/mysql

1veedo · 06-22-2008, 05:33 PM

Ok copying the files failed. I was kindof hoping for an easy solution like that but oh well.

Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!

I'll just do the mysqldump. If I have any problems I'll report back.

Thanks.

trickykid · 06-23-2008, 09:52 AM

Mysqldump is more reliable. But reporting that it failed, we'd need more details, log output to understand what is wrong. You might have missed an important file to copy over, etc.