On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:14:09 -0800 John Oliver said: > OK, a Drupal site I deal with has two copies... a production site and a > test site. After new changes are developed, they're put on the test > site. Once the test site is deemed to be OK, that entire site and > database will be copied over to the production site. > > The issue is, while that work is taking place, changes are still > happening on the production site, like new user registrations and some > form input. What I'm thinking is, we can dump the affected tables and > then import them into the test site, which started life as a mirror copy > of the production site. If I were to: > > mysqldump -h db_server -h user -pPASSWORD database table_1 table_2 > > /tmp/db.sql
Get the table layout on the production box: mysqldump --add-drop-table ... > > On the production side, and then: > > mysql -h test_db_server -h user -pPASSWORD database < /tmp/db.sql ... -- Don Read don_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org