Comments - Setting Up Replication
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Is it not simpler to setup replication using mysqldump with the --gtid and --master-data options? It seems to me that this would be much easier (and safer) for admins new to or experimenting with replication.
As a relative newbie to this myself I don't want to change the article myself, but it seems like a lot of this is just boiler-plate that mysqldump does for you while simultaneously generating a file that can be used to setup a slave in a single step.