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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:28:33 +0000
From:      James Green <james@stealthnet.co.uk>
To:        Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrading mysql-server
Message-ID:  <3DFEEE41.2090604@stealthnet.co.uk>
References:  <3DFDD928.1060901@stealthnet.co.uk> <1040047923.478.10.camel@daemon.home.net>

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Khairil Yusof wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:46, James Green wrote:
>  
>
>>How does one portupgrade mysql-server without having to dump it's 
>>databases first? If you're running a busy server with hundreds of megs 
>>of databases I'm sure the admin wouldn't want to dump, uninstall, 
>>install newest, then restore the databases, particularly if like me he's 
>>merely putting a security fixed release in.
>>    
>>
>
>portupgrade -m '-DSKIP_INSTALL_DB' mysql-server
>
>You might not need to reinstall the server, but it's strongly advised
>you dump it first anyway in case something goes wrong. ;)
>  
>

Thanks for the advice, our upgrade went smoothly using this instructions.

James




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