Re: Replication for historical data

2006-04-07 Thread Atle Veka
Do you have control over your DELETE queries? If so, 'SET SQL_LOG_BIN=0' would be an easy implementation. A common approach in my experience is to have a script query the master and archive data to a second database before any deletes are done. If you have no control over the DELETE queries and w

Re: Replication for historical data

2006-04-07 Thread Eric Braswell
No, replication is not designed for this task. It sounds like the Archive Storage Engine could be a good solution for you: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/archive-storage-engine.html Robin Schumacher has written a nice introductory article: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles

Re: Replication for historical data

2006-04-07 Thread Barry
Ian Collins wrote: Hi, I have a customer who wants to be able to replicate their live MySQL database to a second server, but not to have any data deleted. So there is data on the second server? i.e., they want to accumulate the data. I don't believe you can do this with replication. Does any