On 5/17/2012 5:30 AM, Leon Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Bob Hoffman<bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> is it possible to make each one of those instances a replicate/slave of >> a different master >> (thus a backup mysql server in a way?) > I just recently finished playing with this. I ended up brining up a > dedicated VM for this "backup mysql server". I then created 2 new init > scripts (based off the mysqld one) and modified both to point to their > respective my.cnf's (with auto startup via chkconfig etc etc). Both > have separate data directories, run off 2 separate ports (and socket > files) - which are fire walled anyways as I have no requirement for > this to be open on the slaves and replicate 2 separate masters :) > > L. > Okay, so it looks doable. My plan is to add the instances inside of the my.cnf and then use mysqld_multi to run them as slaves to separate website masters... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos