There is only one thing to watch out for both Xeon and Opteron. If your
current Xeon is 32-bit, and the new processor (even if it is Xeon) is
64-bit, *and* you install 64-bit version of Linux *and* 64-bit MySQL
binaries, you can't just copy binary database files to the new machine.
It probably won't work. Well, maybe it would, but I would very strongly
recommend against it. Use mysqldump to dump database into file, and
re-imort it on new machine. Or setup replication between two machines.
This is recommended even when moving database between two identical
machines anyhow.
???
I have copied a binary mysql database from an Intel 32-bit box (Pentium
4 2.8Ghz Centos 4.4) to an AMD 64-bit box (AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Centos
4.4 64-bit) without any problems. It was a straight copy of
/var/lib/mysql to the other box and then start the mysql server. I did
not even copy the my.cnf file since I had not make any changes to the
one provided by the rpm. I believe you mean postgresql databases. I had
to do psqldump to transfer the postgresql database to the AMD64 box. I
think you can even move mysql databases from Windows to Linux without
problems.
Aren't mysql databases machine independent?
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