[Phpmyadmin-devel] slave replication, load data from master

[Tomas Srnka]

Hello,

I've been working on my design for managing slave replication and I've 
run into a problem.

To explain, slave replication works in a way, that it loads master log 
(located on master server), where information about transactions are 
stored. Everything is fine, if you are setting up replication on empty 
server. However, once you have some data on master, you have to copy 
them to slave server before slave replication is started. My original 
idea was to use LOAD DATA FROM MASTER, but this feature is no longer 
supported 
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data-from-master.html). One 
of my ideas is to create some sort of export/import function for copying 
data from master to slave with phpMyAdmin. Another possibility (for 
large databases/tables) is to ask root (=user) to do it manually (with 
mysqldump+mysql client).

If anyone has any better idea how to solve this problem, please let me know.

Thank you.

Tomas