Hi I understand the concept of master n slave relationship but have certain queries regarding this...
1) In case the master is down i do i configure my system so that a present active slave becomes the master or any other way to tackle this situation.How does the clients know about this new server being set as the master . 2)The master is run as a myslq demon . Now the slaves though being servers ..are run as clients of the master server with a definate usernme who has been granted REPLICATION SLAVE PERMISSion set at the master server?? i.e do i run the slaves as mysql -h xxx -u xxxx -p ?? --mysql client ? 3)Is it necessary t take a snapshot of the datadir at the server , for the first time i set up replication /? Plz Help Me out Thnx Varun ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]