sam wun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just fresh install mysql4.1 in Redhat9.0.
> I have another MySQL5.0 installed in FreeBSD5.3, and just tried to
> copy all data in /var/db/mysql/ from FreeBSD5.3 to /var/db/mysql/data/
> in Redhat9.0.
> After finished copied the data over to Redhat, MySQL4.1 can't start.
> The DB data in MySQL5.0 in the FreeBSD box has database and tables
> with indexes.
> I don't want to rebuild the entire database from scratch in Redhat,
> how can I "transfer" all db files from FreeBSD to Redhat and in
> another version of MySQL?
>
I also want to copy the user accounts in MySQL5.0 db over to MySQL4.1 in
Redhat as well. I supposed this is sort of data backup, but more generic
than that because it is copying data between different version of MySQL,
and from higher version to a lower version of MySQL.
Sam
> Thanks
> Sam
>
>
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