Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

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Subject: Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:03:28 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] alpine.LFD.2.00.0909160941500.3250@localhost> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:49:30 -0400 (EDT)")
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On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   a question about mysql.  i want to reproduce all the mysql databases
> on the new system.  is it sufficient to copy all of /var/lib/mysql?
> is that where the databases are physically stored?  as opposed to
> doing mysql dumps and restores?

I'm no database exports, but copying the files is only safe to do when
the SQL server is not running.  Dumps and restores are the officially
recommended way, AFAIK.

Sven

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