On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Prabhat Kumar <aim.prabhat@stripped> wrote:
> You can add a expire_logs_days Variable in my.cnf during the configuration
> of replication server.
>
> # expire_logs_days = 7
>
> It will purged binary logs older than 7 days.The old logs will be purged
> during the next bin-log swittch.
>
And if your slave's IO lags badly enough this will hose you. Further
it might well come in handy to an arbitrary number of bin logs for
pirt purposes.
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Rob Wultsch
wultsch@stripped