See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=42035 Posted on behalf of a User
Because of the fundamental difference between binary data files under Windows and under Linux. In Response To: At 07:09 PM 6/26/2008, you wrote: >See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=42035 Posted on >behalf of a User > >Hi, > >I'm running MySQL 5.0.51 Community edition. I have a half a gigabyte sized >database that I'd like to move from a Windows 2000 based server to a Linux >server. What's the best way to do this? I normally take complete backup >using MySQL administrator which creates a file with sql to recreate the >tables and insert the data. Can I simply ftp this to the Linux box and >restore it to a database there? Is there a MySQL administrator for Linux? > >Thanks > Why can't you just shutdown the MySQL server and copy the data files to the data directory on the Linux server? Mike -- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
