Moving a MySQL installation?

[mattboston at gmail.com (Matt Shields)]

`mysqlshow' from the command line, or `show databases' from a mysql
command prompt.

Matt

On 4/13/07, Don Levey <lug at the-leveys.us> wrote:
> Mark Richards wrote:
>
> >
> > My preference would be your option 2 which can be done in a single
> > statement to export each database and a single statement to import each
> > database:
> >
> > mysqldump -u USER -p  DATABASE > wholedb.sql
> >
> >     You will be prompted to enter the password for USER
> >
> > then to restore into a new mysql database
> >
> > mysql -u USER -p DATABASE < wholedb.sql
> >
> >     You'll be prompted to enter the password for USER.
> >
> > Replace USER and DATABASE with appropriate names.
> >
> > Before discarding the source MySQL installation I'd be certain that
> > everything is intact on the new one.
> >
> > Also, make certain your fresh MySQL installation has at least been
> > initialized before you try to import.
> >
> > /m
>
> Ah, OK - that makes sense, and I *am* upgrading the version so this is
> probably safer.  One more idiot question: how to I generate a list of
> databases?  The current machine has been around for quite a while
> (started as Red Hat 6.1) so I'm not completely sure what I've got in
> there now...
>   -Don
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