Replication without locking or stopping master.

[J M]

I going to set up a master slave configuration for my databse and was thinking if this approach of synchrosing the master and slave will work.

I will first take the position and log file the master is currently on then perform a backup(without and locks), restore the backup on the slave and start the slave with the log position which was before the backup was taken, one issue i see is the slave reapplying changes before the backup was taken i don't see an issue with this in our system, but what other problems could i face with this way of synchronising the master and slave? And is there any other way people wuld suggest to synchronise the master and slave without stopping or locking the master?


Thanks