Re: Disable DB without deleting data

[Johan De Meersman]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@stripped>
> 
> impossible with innodb
> 
> * dump
> * delete
> 
> with myisam you could stop the server and move the databasedir
> do not try this with innodb even with innodb_file_per_table!

Mmh, it should be pretty easy to write a small script that creates a new database named
<oldname>_offline and renames all tables into it, no?

Shame that "rename database" doesn't exist any more :-)


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