[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“his tutorial describes how to set up database replication in
MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible
for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the
master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact
copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave),
and all updates to the database on the master server are
immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that
both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an
accidentally issued DELETE command will also be carried out on the
slave; but replication can help protect against hardware failures
though.”