> I would say that it's very important to know why data 
> is getting out of sync between your master and slave. 

Ultimately, I agree. But since it's a canned application, getting to
that point might be hard, and once it is resolved, new issues might
arise. I would never have any confidence that the replication is solid
enough to use the slave server for backup purposes. (Which, by the way,
is the real reason I'm doing this. In the middle of the night, when
there are few users on the system, I want to backup the slave, but first
I want to make sure I have a 100% reliable copy of the data.)

> There are ways to resync data that don't involve all 
> this as well:  Maatkit has some tools

I've looked with great interest at Maatkit, but their tools are replete
with warnings about dangers, bugs, and crashes. They certainly do not
inspire confidence. 

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