Yep, you can...just make sure you shut mysql down before doing so, to
make sure all tables/indexes are updated -
-steve
At 1:05 PM -0300 9/16/02, Support wrote:
>Hi,I noticed that if I just copy the folder mysql\data\db1
>to mysql\data\db2 I have a copy of the database.
>Is this correct? May I use this to duplicate/back up
>full databases?
>
> TIA,
>Ricardo.
>
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