All, I've currently got a project to migrate a LARGE (3.5TB) MySQL data set from a Sun SPARC machine to a Sun x86 machine, both running Solaris 10 (though obviously one is x86 and the other is SPARC). Is it possible to simply copy the data files from one host to the other or is a full mysqldump/import necessary to preserve data integrity?
If a file copy doesn't work, why specificially would it fail? Thanks, -Aaron
