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Comments - database per path

11 years, 10 months ago Kevin Thorpe
Re: database per path [Answer]

MySQL is also happy to follow symlinks. I use that for data recovery from backups.

My sql backups are essentially rsync copies of the data tables (from an LVM snapshot protected by FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK). To access them for recovering data records I can simply add a symlink to the mysql data dir and hey presto it appears as a new database.

 
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