***BOGO*** Re: Moving Database from Windows to Linux

[samk@xxxxxxxxxx]

See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=42035 Posted on behalf of a User

Because of the fundamental difference between binary data files under Windows and under Linux.


In Response To: 

At 07:09 PM 6/26/2008, you wrote:
>See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=42035 Posted on 
>behalf of a User
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm running MySQL 5.0.51 Community edition. I have a half a gigabyte sized 
>database that I'd like to move from a Windows 2000 based server to a Linux 
>server. What's the best way to do this? I normally take complete backup 
>using MySQL administrator which creates a file with sql to recreate the 
>tables and insert the data. Can I simply ftp this to the Linux box and 
>restore it to a database there? Is there a MySQL administrator for Linux?
>
>Thanks
>

Why can't you just shutdown the MySQL server and copy the data files to the 
data directory on the Linux server?

Mike 


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