7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
06:56
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 00:43 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
My machine with the database is broken. I need to transfer the data to another machine.
How do I do that?
There is The Right Way, and then, there is, of course, the quick and dirty way. The quick and dirty way has never failed for me, but use it at your own risk: on old server or old disc: cd /var/lib tar cfj mysqldb.tar.bz2 mysql copy mysqldb.tar.bz2 to new server on new server: cd /var/lib tar xfj mysqldb.tar.bz2 -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com