On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:15:31PM -0700, David Potter wrote:
> I have a question on moving a MySQL database from a Windows Me
> machine to a Linux machine. Most of our tables have over 22 million
> rows. I suppose the slow but safe way is to dump the whole database
> on the Windows machine using mysqldump and then ftp the dump file
> over to the Linux box. But to save time can I just ftp over the
> files in the /data directory in ascii mode ? Or does Mysql store
> the data differently in Windows vs Unix and I have to do this the
> slower way as mentioned above ? Thank you.
MySQL 3.23.xx uses a platform independant format for the data. So just
shut down the server and copy all the *.MYD *.MYI *.frm files over to
Linux and go from there.
Sure beats the time needed to dump and reload the data on the other
end.
Jeremy
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