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High Availability MySQL Cookbook
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High Availability MySQL Cookbook

by Alexander Davies
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
6h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring a replication slave, migrating data with a simple SQL dump

In this recipe, we will show how to configure a replication slave while coping with a master that both has data on it and potentially has that data changing, while minimizing the time for which the master must be "locked" from updates.

In the common case of adding a slave to a master that already has data in it, the simplest technique is to use the mysqldump binary provided by MySQL to inject the data from master to slave, and to reset the slave at the same time.

For this one-line command on the master to work, the following requirements must be met:

  • Any existing slave process must be stopped on the slave (STOP SLAVE)
  • A user account must exist that is able to create databases and ...
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