version: 4.0.22 This is probably documented somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone point me in the right direction? I want a setup similar to the following: /var/lib/mysql/data/[databases] /var/lib/mysql/logs/[logs] (binary, etc) Currently, everything is in /var/lib/mysql (including innondb). Current my.cnf settings: log-bin datadir = /var/lib/mysql/ innodb_data_home_dir = innodb_log_arch_dir = ./ innodb_log_group_home_dir = ./ My plan is: 1. Shut down mysql 2. for each database cp -r /var/lib/mysql/{db} /var/lib/mysql/data/{db} 3. cp ibdata1 to /var/lib/mysql/data/ 4. cp ib_logfile* and ib_arch_log* /var/lib/mysql/logs/ 5. cp hostname-bin.* (binary logs and index) to /var/lib/mysql/logs/ 6. edit my.cnf as follows log-bin=/var/lib/mysql/logs/ datadir = /var/lib/mysql/data/ innodb_data_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/data/ innodb_log_arch_dir = /var/lib/mysql/logs/ innodb_log_group_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/logs/ 7. Restart mysql Is there anything else that I am missing? Are there any gotchas with this setup? Thanks
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