The utility accepts one or more database pairs on the command line. To name a database pair, use db_name:new_db_name syntax to specify the source and destination names explicitly. If the source and destination database names are the same, db_name can be used as shorthand for db_name:db_name.

By default, the operation copies all objects (tables, views, triggers, events, procedures, functions, and database-level grants) and data to the destination server. There are options to turn off copying any or all of the objects as well as not copying the data.

To exclude specific objects by name, use the --exclude option with a name in db.*obj* format, or you can supply a search pattern. For example, --exclude=db1.trig1 excludes the single trigger and --exclude=trig_ excludes all objects from all databases having a name that begins with trig and has a following character.

By default, the utility creates each table on the destination server using the same storage engine as the original table. To override this and specify the storage engine to use for all tables created on the destination server, use the --new-storage-engine option. If the destination server supports the new engine, all tables use that engine.

To specify the storage engine to use for tables for which the destination server does not support the original storage engine on the source server, use the --default-storage-engine option.

The --new-storage-engine option takes precedence over --default-storage-engine if both are given.

If the --new-storage-engine or --default-storage-engine option is given and the destination server does not support the specified storage engine, a warning is issued and the server's default storage engine setting is used instead.

By default, the operation uses a consistent snapshot to read the source databases. To change the locking mode, use the --locking option with a locking type value. Use a value of no-locks to turn off locking altogether or lock-all to use only table locks. The default value is snapshot. Additionally, the utility uses WRITE locks to lock the destination tables during the copy.

You can include replication statements for copying data among a master and slave or between slaves. The --rpl option permits you to select from the following replication statements to include in the export.

• master

Create and execute a CHANGE MASTER statement to make the destination server a slave of the server specified in the --source option. This executes the appropriate STOP and START slave statements. The STOP SLAVE statement is executed at the start of the copy and the CHANGE MASTER followed by the START SLAVE statements are executed after the copy.

• slave

Create and execute a CHANGE MASTER statement to make the destination server a slave connected to the same master as the server specified in the --source option. This executes the appropriate STOP and START slave statements. The STOP SLAVE statement is executed at the start of the copy and the CHANGE MASTER followed by the START SLAVE statements after the copy.

To include the replication user in the CHANGE MASTER statement, use the --rpl-user option to specify the user and password. If this option is omitted, the utility attempts to identify the replication user. In the event that there are multiple candidates or the user requires a password, the utility aborts with an error.

If you attempt to copy databases on a server with GTIDs enabled (GTID_MODE = ON), a warning will be generated if the copy does not include all databases. This is because the GTID statements generated include the GTIDs for all databases and not only those databases in the export.

The utility will also generate a warning if you copy databases on a GTID enabled server but use the --skip-gtid option.

To make the most use of GTIDs, you should copy all of the databases on the server with the --all option. OPTIONS.PP mysqldbcopy accepts the following command-line options:

• --help

Display a help message and exit.

• --license

Display license information and exit.

• --character-set=<charset>

Sets the client character set. The default is retrieved from the server variable character_set_client.

• --default-storage-engine=<def_engine>

The engine to use for tables if the destination server does not support the original storage engine on the source server.

• --destination=<destination>

Connection information for the destination server.

To connect to a server, it is necessary to specify connection parameters such as user name, host name, password, and either a port or socket. MySQL Utilities provides a number of ways to supply this information. All of the methods require specifying your choice via a command-line option such as --server, --master, --slave, etc. The methods include the following in order of most secure to least secure.

• Use login-paths from your .mylogin.cnf file (encrypted, not visible). Example : <login-path>[:<port>][:<socket>]

• Use a configuration file (unencrypted, not visible) Note: available in release-1.5.0. Example : <configuration-file-path>[:<section>]

• Specify the data on the command-line (unencrypted, visible). Example : <user>[:<passwd>]@<host>[:<port>][:<socket>]

• --exclude=<exclude>, -x<exclude>

Exclude one or more objects from the operation using either a specific name such as db1.t1 or a search pattern. Use this option multiple times to specify multiple exclusions. By default, patterns use LIKE matching. With the --regexp option, patterns use REGEXP matching.

This option does not apply to grants.

• --drop-first

Drop each database to be copied if exists before copying anything into it. Without this option, an error occurs if you attempt to copy objects into an existing database.

Note
Before MySQL Utilities 1.4.2, this option was named --force.

• --locking=<locking>

Choose the lock type for the operation. Permitted lock values are no-locks (do not use any table locks), lock-all (use table locks but no transaction and no consistent read), and snapshot (consistent read using a single transaction). The default is snapshot.

• --multiprocess

Specify the number of processes to concurrently copy the specified databases. Special values: 0 (number of processes equal to the number of detected CPUs) and 1 (default - no concurrency). Multiprocessing works at the database level for Windows and at the table level for Non-Windows (POSIX) systems.

• --new-storage-engine=<new_engine>

The engine to use for all tables created on the destination server.

• --quiet, -q

Turn off all messages for quiet execution.

• --regexp, --basic-regexp, -G

Perform pattern matches using the REGEXP operator. The default is to use LIKE for matching.

• --rpl=<dump_option>, --replication=<dump_option>

Include replication information. Permitted values are master (make destination a slave of the source server) and slave (make destination a slave of the same master as the source - only works if the source server is a slave).

• --rpl-user=<replication_user>

The user and password for the replication user requirement in the form: <user>[:<password>] or <login-path>. E.g. rpl:passwd Default = None.

• l --skip-gtid

Skip creation and execution of GTID statements during the copy operation.

• --all

Copy all of the databases on the server.

• --skip=<objects>

Specify objects to skip in the operation as a comma-separated list (no spaces). Permitted values are CREATE_DB, DATA, EVENTS, FUNCTIONS, GRANTS, PROCEDURES, TABLES, TRIGGERS, and VIEWS.

• --source=<source>

Connection information for the source server.

To connect to a server, it is necessary to specify connection parameters such as user name, host name, password, and either a port or socket. MySQL Utilities provides a number of ways to supply this information. All of the methods require specifying your choice via a command-line option such as --server, --master, --slave, etc. The methods include the following in order of most secure to least secure.

• Use login-paths from your .mylogin.cnf file (encrypted, not visible). Example : <login-path>[:<port>][:<socket>]

• Use a configuration file (unencrypted, not visible) Note: available in release-1.5.0. Example : <configuration-file-path>[:<section>]

• Specify the data on the command-line (unencrypted, visible). Example : <user>[:<passwd>]@<host>[:<port>][:<socket>]

• --ssl-ca

The path to a file that contains a list of trusted SSL CAs.

• --ssl-cert

The name of the SSL certificate file to use for establishing a secure connection.

• --ssl-cert

The name of the SSL key file to use for establishing a secure connection.

• --ssl

Specifies if the server connection requires use of SSL. If an encrypted connection cannot be established, the connection attempt fails. Default setting is 0 (SSL not required).

• --verbose, -v

Specify how much information to display. Use this option multiple times to increase the amount of information. For example, -v = verbose, -vv = more verbose, -vvv = debug.

• --version

Display version information and exit.

On the source to copy all objects from the database, the user must have these privileges: SELECT for tables, SHOW VIEW for views, EVENT for events and TRIGGER for triggers. Additionally, the SELECT privilege is also required for the mysql database.

On the destination to copy all objects, the user must have these privileges: CREATE, ALTER, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, LOCK TABLES, DROP if --drop-first option is used, SUPER when binary logging is enabled, CREATE VIEW for views, CREATE ROUTINE, EXECUTE for procedures and functions, EVENT for events, TRIGGER for triggers and GRANT OPTION to copy grants. The SUPER privilege might also be required for some objects (views, procedures, functions, events and triggers), depending on their DEFINER value.

Actual privileges required may differ from installation to installation depending on the security privileges present and whether the database contains certain objects such as views or events and whether binary logging is enabled.

The --new-storage-engine and --default-storage-engine options apply to all destination tables in the operation.

Some option combinations may result in errors during the operation. For example, eliminating tables but not views may result in an error a the view is copied.

The --rpl option is not valid for copying databases on the same server. An error will be generated.

When copying data and including the GTID commands, you may encounter an error similar to "GTID_PURGED can only be set when GTID_EXECUTED is empty". This occurs because the destination server is not in a clean replication state. To aleviate this problem, you can issue a "RESET MASTER" command on the destination prior to executing the copy.

Cloning databases that contain foreign key constraints does not change the constraint in the cloned table. For example, if table db1.t1 has a foreign key constraint on table db1.t2, when db1 is cloned to db2, table db2.t1 will have a foreign key constraint on db1.t2.

The path to the MySQL client tools should be included in the PATH environment variable in order to use the authentication mechanism with login-paths. This will allow the utility to use the my_print_defaults tools which is required to read the login-path values from the login configuration file (.mylogin.cnf).

If any database identifier specified as an argument contains special characters or is a reserved word, then it must be appropriately quoted with backticks (`). In turn, names quoted with backticks must also be quoted with single or double quotes depending on the operating system, i.e. (") in Windows or (') in non-Windows systems, in order for the utilities to read backtick quoted identifiers as a single argument. For example, to copy a database with the name weird`db.name with other:weird`db.name, the database pair must be specified using the following syntax (in non-Windows): '`weird``db.name`:`other:weird``db.name`'.

Keep in mind that you can only take advantage of multiprocessing if your system has multiple CPUs available for concurrent execution. Also note that multiprocessing is applied at a different level according to the operating system where the mysqldbcopy utility is executed (due to python limitations). In particular, it is applied at the database level for Windows (i.e., different databases are concurrently copied) and at the table level for Non-Windows (POSIX) systems (i.e., different tables within the same database are concurrently copied). EXAMPLES.PP The following example demonstrates how to use the utility to copy a database named util_test to a new database named util_test_copy on the same server:

shell> mysqldbcopy \
  --source=root:pass@localhost:3310:/test123/mysql.sock \
  --destination=root:pass@localhost:3310:/test123/mysql.sock \
  util_test:util_test_copy
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Destination on localhost: ... connected.
# Copying database util_test renamed as util_test_copy
# Copying TABLE util_test.t1
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t2
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t3
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t4
# Copying table data.
# Copying VIEW util_test.v1
# Copying TRIGGER util_test.trg
# Copying PROCEDURE util_test.p1
# Copying FUNCTION util_test.f1
# Copying EVENT util_test.e1
# Copying GRANTS from util_test
#...done.

If the database to be copied does not contain only InnoDB tables and you want to ensure data integrity of the copied data by locking the tables during the read step, add a --locking=lock-all option to the command:

shell> mysqldbcopy \
  --source=root:pass@localhost:3310:/test123/mysql.sock \
  --destination=root:pass@localhost:3310:/test123/mysql.sock \
  util_test:util_test_copy --locking=lock-all
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Destination on localhost: ... connected.
# Copying database util_test renamed as util_test_copy
# Copying TABLE util_test.t1
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t2
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t3
# Copying table data.
# Copying TABLE util_test.t4
# Copying table data.
# Copying VIEW util_test.v1
# Copying TRIGGER util_test.trg
# Copying PROCEDURE util_test.p1
# Copying FUNCTION util_test.f1
# Copying EVENT util_test.e1
# Copying GRANTS from util_test
#...done.

To copy one or more databases from a master to a slave, you can use the following command to copy the databases. Use the master as the source and the slave as the destination:

shell> mysqldbcopy --source=root@localhost:3310 \
  --destination=root@localhost:3311 test123 --rpl=master \
  --rpl-user=rpl
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Destination on localhost: ... connected.
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Stopping slave
# Copying database test123
# Copying TABLE test123.t1
# Copying data for TABLE test123.t1
# Connecting to the current server as master
# Starting slave
#...done.

To copy a database from one slave to another attached to the same master, you can use the following command using the slave with the database to be copied as the source and the slave where the database needs to copied to as the destination:

shell> mysqldbcopy --source=root@localhost:3311 \
  --destination=root@localhost:3312 test123 --rpl=slave \
  --rpl-user=rpl
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Destination on localhost: ... connected.
# Source on localhost: ... connected.
# Stopping slave
# Copying database test123
# Copying TABLE test123.t1
# Copying data for TABLE test123.t1
# Connecting to the current server's master
# Starting slave
#...done.

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED.PP The user must have SELECT, SHOW VIEW, EVENT and TRIGGER privileges for the database(s) on the source server. On the destination server, the user must have the following privileges for the copied database(s): CREATE, ALTER, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, LOCK TABLES, DROP if --drop-first option is used, and SUPER depending on the objects DEFINER value.