On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:24 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote:
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> 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).

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