On Tue, 18 May 1999, Charles Kirby wrote:
> Tell me if I'm right folks... if I want to copy my database over to
> another Unix machine, I stop the interface first, then simply ftp all the
> contents of ~data/mydatabase over to ~/data/mydatabase on the other
> machine. Flush tables; flush privileges, etc., and it's done! Anything
> wrong with this?? Of course, I do the same for ~data/mysql also.
>
mysqldump -u root -pyour_pass -hOLDserver db_name | \
mysql -u root -pyour_pass -hNEWserver db_name
REMEMBER! create database db_name; on new machine first.
This will transfer the db in question to the new machine.
Works for me.
cheers,
