David, Monday, January 28, 2002, 10:39:12 AM, you wrote:
DS> Hi, I was wondering if any of you clever people out there can help me. I DS> have a client with a problem I'm sure some of you have fixed in the past ... DS> Client has 3 geographically separate sites, running same application (mine, DS> of course) and generating data on MySQL database. DS> Periodically (probably nightly), we want to push changes occurring on each DS> database into each of other 2 sites. Data volumes are low-ish (est max 5Meg DS> per database absolute worst case). Line cost is minimal (ADSL), and comms DS> issues I can work out just fine. DS> This strikes me as a version of the multi-mysql-database replication DS> pattern, though sort of slow. Is replication setup acceptable, or are the DS> downtimes where databases are separate an issue, and is this using a DS> sledgehammer to crack a nut? DS> The alternative that occurs to me (though it is a bit if a pain) is to DS> change my code slightly so each DB update query is written to a transaction DS> log at each site, and then manually apply each of these logs to the other 2 DS> databases. I can do this fine, but it seems a bit, well, crude. Plus the DS> overhead of protecting the logs, and of clearing them on successful completion. What about mysqldump? See http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html for more info about mysqldump. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php