Mike wrote:
I not sure what you mean by binary copy. Can you please explain?
A binary copy means copying the MySQL data directory directly, rather than do a mysqldump, which converts the data to text format. The text dump is converted back to binary format for disk storage on loading it back into the new database.
That conversion through a machine-neutral format is why it's always guaranteed to work. Moving binary data between machines only works when both machines play by the same rules.
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