From: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
To: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Cc: Ryan Taylor <ryan.taylor@leeds-art.ac.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mirroring mySQL using Git
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:29:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210080565.7022.11.camel@futex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506132422.GA13125@bit.office.eurotux.com>
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:24 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Ryan Taylor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wanting to mirror my mysql databases from my live web box to my dev
> > box. The database are updated by a CMS on the live box and I need to be
> > able to transfer these updates to the dev box.
> >
> > Is this possible with git?
>
> You'd be better off with asynchronous replication. See
> <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html>.
>
> Note that you go the git route, or other file-based solution, you'll
> have to freeze operations to the filesystem where the DBs reside, or
> you'll corrupt the copy.
Alternatively, you can save a SQL dump without extended inserts and with
all comments stripped (especially the embedded timestamp).
Still, replication is a much better alternative (if possible).
--
http://spinlock.ch/blog/
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2008-05-06 13:03 Mirroring mySQL using Git Ryan Taylor
2008-05-06 13:24 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-05-06 13:29 ` Matthias Kestenholz [this message]
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