On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Paul Halliday wrote: > I just converted (reinstalled) a FreeBSD system from i386 to amd64. Of > course; I missed the memo. I have been struggling to get everything back > online. I just finished exporting a few Gigs of RRD's to XML so that I could > use them :| > > My question: I was s/rushing/stupid so I just moved /var/mysql to a > partition (i386) and reinstalled. Can I just copy this back or does some > magic need to happen first?
If you're talking about the data, I wouldn't expect this change to cause issues, unless perhaps you're also updating to a different version of MySQL. That could be a problem, depending on how different the old and new versions are. Consult the "upgrading" section of the manual to see. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading.html -- Paul DuBois Oracle Corporation / MySQL Documentation Team Madison, Wisconsin, USA www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
