[geeks] MySQL question

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Wed May 19 18:20:28 CDT 2004


On May 19, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> If I've got a system running Solaris/SPARC and MySQL, and I want to 
> replace
> that system with Solaris/x86, do I have to worry about endian-ness 
> issues
> with the database files?
>
> Or is it just a "best practice" to mysqldump, then recreate the 
> databases
> on the x86 side and import everything back in?
>

Even on same hardware/OS I always dump and reload.  It's just my 
comfort level is much higher doing that way.

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Kurt Huhn
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