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[Richard Taylor]

It seems more complicated that it really is when you read the documentation (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-howto.html) but it usually will take you about half to a whole a day if you haven't done it before.

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Richard Taylor


On Monday, 8 August 2011 at 12:08, Andrew Stewart wrote:

> 
> On 8 Aug 2011, at 13:05, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:
> > This may be overkill for you, 
> > But it may kill two birds with one stone. 
> > 
> > - set up a replication to a single slave 
> > - when you want to dump, stop replication 
> > - dump from the slave 
> > - restart after the dump
> > 
> > Thereby you have a hot copy to failover to
> > As well as a mechanism for taking consistent database snapshots 
> > Without affecting the performance of your service. 
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. In hand-wavy terms, is it much of a hassle to set up MySQL replication?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
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