How To Skip Certain Errors In MySQL Replication | Linux Today

How To Skip Certain Errors In MySQL Replication

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Falko Timme
Mar 2, 2013

MySQL replication is nice, however it can happen that it stops because of an error, and restoring a working replication can be hard – you need to set locks on the master to get a consistent MySQL dump, and during that time websites are not accessible. However there’s a way to make the MySQL slave ignore certain errors using the slave-skip-errors directive.

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