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Hello...
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:14 -0800, Rob wrote:
> I have a RHEL3 server where I installed a MySQL rpm from MySQL rather
> than from RedHat. Now I want to move all of this to the RH standard
> packeges so I can keep up on it better. If I uninstall my rpm and
> install the one from RHN am I going to loose my databases?
probably not, backup anyway
> Is is there
> a simple backup/resore procedure for my dbs including the mysql
> database?
>
(man) mysqldump
Your biggest problem will likely be that you used features of the newer
DB version 4.1.11 vs. 3.x.y. You might have the data, but cannot access
it or my.cnf options don't work with v3. e.g. query caching
/me uses MySQL AB binary tarballs and subscribes to mysql-announce
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