Look up link or something in the manual. There is a way to do
virtual symbolic links in NT with mysql without installing anything,
it has to do with adding paths to the my.cnf file, see the docs
for details.
"Tracy A. Mitchell" wrote:
>
> You can do this with NT Server as well. It is called Distributed File
> System (DFS). You may have to download it from Microsoft but it is free. I
> think it is built into Win 2000. You will have to muck around in the
> documentation for the details.
>
> HTH
>
> Tracy
>
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>
> This isn't awfully useful to you, but it's dead easy to do this on a Unix
> system. All you do is copy the data over wherever you like (to a big, fat,
> drive), and then link the new directory from the /usr/local/mysql/data/
> directory ("ln -s").
>
> OTOH, I guess you can't link a file/directory in Windows/DOS.
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