I ended up getting my databases back in sync the old fashion way. Stopped all
dbmail services, setting incoming mail to queue up and mysqldump. I ran in
to all kinds of issues starting my slave back up after the rsync. Maybe I
was using the wrong switches in rsync, not sure. 

Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 
> On 01/13/2011 09:51 PM, Paul J Stevens wrote:
>> On 01/13/2011 09:07 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>
>>> You'll find the master will grind to a halt anyway while you're doing
>>> this, as soon as the write-ahead log fills up. With small-ish databases
>>> it's not a big deal, but if the size is in the 100GB+ range the rsync
>>> method will be a lot more workable.
>>
>> Fair enough. My method is aimed at being reliably script-able and
>> without *any* downtime, so slave initialization can be done without time
>> pressure. But I've never had to witness the gridlock you mention.
>>
>> I've used your method plenty back when mysql-replication still sucked
>> bad and started to suffer from sync conflicts on myisam tables every
>> month or so. The rsync method you described is solid. One detail I miss
>> is what to do with the master.info file.
> 
> Well, you can either check the log position in it and initialize the 
> slave to that, or remove it along with the binlogs (if you have no other 
> slaves running) and let the slave start replicating from log 0 position 
> 0, which it will do by default.
> 
>> One way that should work is hard-coding the master-* parameters in
>> my.cnf, and simply remove the master.info files when priming the slave.
>>
>> --- db1.my.net:/etc/mysqld/my.cnf ---
>> [mysqld]
>> server-id              = 1
>> master-host            = db2.my.net
>> master-user            = replicationuser
>> master-password        = replicationpassword
>> master-port            = 3306
>>
>> --- db2.my.net:/etc/mysqld/my.cnf ---
>> [mysqld]
>> server-id              = 2
>> master-host            = db1.my.net
>> master-user            = replicationuser
>> master-password        = replicationpassword
>> master-port            = 3306
> 
> Indeed. But those will start to get ignored after the first startup. 
> Thereafer, the info in master.info will be used. In fact, the official 
> line is that setting this up in my.cnf is deprecated.
> 
> Gordan
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