Installation

Requirements:

• Perl
• Perl Modules:
  • DBI
  • DBD::mysql
  • config::IniFiles
• Access to database server(s):
  • User name
  • Password
  • Server address
  • Database name
  • Tables to clone (optional)
• Access to folders:
  • /etc/
  • /usr/local/sbin/
  • A temporary folder that is accessible to both server (if cloning across the network) or just a temporary folder

The Perl modules can often be found through a package manager, like yum or apt-get. If not, they can be installed from CPAN.

Files within this project:

1. mysql-quick-clone.conf
2. mysql-quick-clone.pl
3. mysql-quick-clone.conf.8
4. mysql-quick-clone.pl.8

Installation:

After downloading the project, copy the files to the following locations:
mysql-quick-clone.conf → /etc/
mysql-quick-clone.pl → /usr/local/sbin/
mysql-quick-clone.conf.8 → /usr/local/share/man/man8/
mysql-quick-clone.pl.8 → /usr/local/share/man/man8/

The included install.sh will perform these comands. It is important that this be done with administrator (root) access.

Verify install

The man pages should be accessible by running:

1. man mysql-quick-clone.pl
2. man mysql-quick-clone.conf

The main program should run with the following command:

/usr/local/sbin/mysql-quick-clone.pl

and it should return:

“Please input all required arguments”