On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:24 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Ryan Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wanting to mirror my mysql databases from my live web box to my dev > > box. The database are updated by a CMS on the live box and I need to be > > able to transfer these updates to the dev box. > > > > Is this possible with git? > > You'd be better off with asynchronous replication. See > <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html>. > > Note that you go the git route, or other file-based solution, you'll > have to freeze operations to the filesystem where the DBs reside, or > you'll corrupt the copy. Alternatively, you can save a SQL dump without extended inserts and with all comments stripped (especially the embedded timestamp). Still, replication is a much better alternative (if possible). -- http://spinlock.ch/blog/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
