That looks like it's exactly what I need, but I'd like anyone to be able to 
run the vagrant up command to use the Vagrantfile, is there any way to 
install the plugin when `vagrant up` is run by specifying it in the 
Vagrantfile?

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 1:16:51 PM UTC, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> Seems you can check vagrant-triggers plugin, and run those commands either 
> before halt or destroy.
>
> Alvaro.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Tom Butler <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> I want to be able to store MySQL's data on the host machine using a 
>> shared folder so when typing vagrant destroy then vagrant up, the data from 
>> MySQL is retained. This works fine for a httpdocs directory.
>>
>>
>> I managed it in this way:
>>
>> - Stop the server
>> - Copy the original mysql data from /var/lib/mysql to /var/lib/mysql-data
>> - Stop the server from running on startup
>> - Package the box
>>
>> Then mount a shared folder, ./mysql (host) to /var/lib/mysql on the guest 
>>
>> and run a provisioning script that, on the guest:
>>
>> - Copies /var/lib/mysql-data to /var/lib/mysql
>> - Starts the server
>>
>>
>> This works fine, *most* of the time. However, sometimes the database gets 
>> corrupted. I'm not sure why this is but the ibdata1 file gets corrupted and 
>> becomes unrecoverable. I'm not sure why this is but it must be to do with 
>> stopping/starting the server and accessing the data folder across a shared 
>> folder. Obviously this isn't ideal.
>>
>> To fix this, I created a systemd unit that runs mysqldump and dumps the 
>> database to /vagrant/database.sql and then changed vagrant to import the 
>> database in the provisioning script.
>>
>> The systemd unit works and when shutting down the box without any shared 
>> folders set up, the database export is created before the server is shut 
>> down. However, when the .sql file is being written to a shared folder it's 
>> always zero bytes.  I am 90% sure this is because the vagrant halt command 
>> unmounts the shared folders and sends the shutdown signal. It's likely the 
>> shared folder is being umounted before the systemd shutdown script is run 
>> (or at least completed).
>>
>> Is there any way to avoid this and have it save/load mysql data on the 
>> host rather than the guest?
>>
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