I have replication setup in the following way: A -> B ->C
I am making updates to server A. I want to stop all my updates and point them to server C. After I start writing to server C, can I use the change master statement to make the C the master of A (take B out of the topology) and proceed to set up peer-to-peer between A <-> C without taking a new backup of c to set up the replication between A->C? I guess what I am really asking is if the data is the same, is a backup required for initialization?
