Are you running the stock Apple MySQL install??
I went through this a few times. If so figure out where the default
Apple install places the data dir.
The MySQL pkg installers will install everything in:
/usr/local/mysql/data/
where:
/usr/local/mysql/
is really a symbolic link to each incremental MySQL install. So if
you install 4.1.13 you will have something like this...
/usr/local/mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.13-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc
/usr/local/mysql-standard-4.1.13-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc
/usr/local/mysql-standard-4.1.12-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc
etc..
So each time you updgrade MySQL you need to manually move the data
from dir to dir. I stopped this by creating a my.cf file and
specifying a path for my data like /usr/local/data/mysql or /var/data/
mysql/
The upgrades are painless after that.
Now that being said there is a Apple tech note:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107852
on MySQL upgrades.
To be safe you should dump your data as noted, upgrade (w/ the my.cf
file added) and re-insert your data fresh.
Dan T
On Aug 9, 2005, at 9:21 PM, m i l e s wrote:
Hi,
I have a silly question....DUH....
Im running OS X Server, I installed 4.018 and I want to run 4.1.13,
how do I upgrade the server, without losing anything ?
Do I just install over it ? Of course backing up all the tables
and what not first ?
Any pointers would be helpful.
Thanks.
M i l e s.
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