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Re: MySQL innoDBD Backup
Posted by: Nick Roper
Date: August 02, 2004 03:57PM

Hi,

First of all, there is a difference in the way that MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines store table structuers and data. MyISAM creates separate format (.frm), index (.MYI) and data files (.MYD) for each table, but InnoDB only stores table format information in individual files; the data and index information for ALL InnoDB tables in the database is stored in a single logical tablespace which can consist of one or more files or raw partitions which, by default, are stored in the server's data directory and not the database directory.

If you want to copy the database to another computer, then use the mysqldump utility to create a .sql file than can then be used to re-build the database on the other machine.

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Nick Roper

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