B. Keith Murphy schrieb:
> A simple rsync should do the trick. How long will depend on how much
> data you have. I would just shut down the server, copy over the data
> directory and start the new server up. Should be a piece of cake.
>
> Keith
>
> David Ruggles wrote:
>> I have a MySQL 5.x box and I am thinking about moving it to another more
>> powerful server. I would be able to schedule some downtime so that's
>> not an
>> issue. How complicated a process would this be? I don't want to
>> upgrade the
>> software or anything, just move the existing tables, users and
>> permissions
>> to another physical server. It would even have the same IP address.
additionally, depending on data size it could much more easier to just
install our old HDD into the new server ... whether copy the data to the new
HDD or sue the old ones ...
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Sebastian Mendel