Hi Daevid, There are the binary logs. Yes they are used for replication or you can use them much the same as a logical log exists in some other technologies.
You can find a good description of them at the mysql manual website at : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/binary-log.html Regards --------------------------------------------------------------- ********** _/ ********** David Logan ******* _/ ******* ITO Delivery Specialist - Database ***** _/ ***** Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd **** _/_/_/ _/_/_/ **** E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **** _/ _/ _/ _/ **** Desk: +618 8408 4273 **** _/ _/ _/_/_/ **** Mobile: 0417 268 665 ***** _/ ****** ****** _/ ******** Postal: 148 Frome Street, ******** _/ ********** Adelaide SA 5001 Australia i n v e n t --------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 August 2006 12:43 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: I have 972 vmware-bin.000XXX files! I use a VMware for LAMP development work. I just looked in my /var/lib/mysql dir and there are 972 of these vmware-bin.000001 ... vmware-bin.000972 files! Yipes! Do I need them? Can I delete them? How do I prevent them from being created all the time? Can't they all just go into one vmware-bin file (as in append, like a .log file does)? I saw this post, but it doesn't answer any questions: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?28,74385,74385 Googling for 'mysql bin.000001' seems to indicate these are related to replication -- I'm not using replication. ÐÆ5ÏÐ P.S. I found this link: http://miniprep.caltech.edu/~remote/blog/?p=99 Which says to run "reset master;" -- which did get rid of them for now, but my questions above are still valid. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
