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Re: [SLE] Moving MySQL, Backing up MySQL ??
  • From: Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:20:46 +0100
  • Message-id: <200507072020.46381.kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 20:00, John N. Alegre wrote:
> I have a standard SuSE Pro 9.1 installation. Where are the database files
> for MySQL? I want to back up only the db and relavent config files not any
> of the MySQL binaries.

/var/lib/mysql
You need to be root or mysql to access these.

> Also which files (the db files) do I move to migrate the entire database to
> a MySQL (same version) running under a different Linux distro (Red Hat)?

In a console:
mysqldump -uusername -p db > saved_db
and enter the password for username (usually root). This will give a text
file. Transfer that to the target PC, and run:
mysqladmin -uusername -p create "newdb"
to create the database, and then:
mysql -uusername -p newdb < saved_db
to populate it with your transferred data.

--
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

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