Olaf Stein wrote:
Probably not
AFAIK it should work in theory if you have no floating point columns but I
would not try it.
Why cant you take a dump, you can do it table by table, you will have some
downtime though.
One option might be to use a 64bit slave and make that the master and then
add more 64 slaves.
On 4/25/08 11:57 AM, "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Olaf Stein
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As long as you use dumps to restore your databases on the new 64bit system
(instead of the binary files) you should be fine
Olaf
I have so much data that we can't take a mysqldump of our database. The
directory tared is about 18GB. I just use the other method by just copying
over the data directory. Do you think the data will be intact if a just copy
over the data directory?
Seriously, 18 gb isn't too big to do a mysqldump. And I really wouldn't
advise you trying to do a binary copy. You are just asking for trouble.
Plan ahead and you can do this on a slave without any problem, import
the data on the new server and sync it back up without any problems.
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