[plug] moving mysql database

Derek Fountain derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Mar 2 19:39:26 WST 2003


On Sunday 02 March 2003 19:32, Jon Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know how to move a MySQL database from one server to another? 
> Any doco would be greatly appreciated.

MySQL uses the file system to manage its underlying database structure. 
Creating a database actually boils down to a simple "mkdir" in the right 
place, etc. So you can just copy the files over.



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