Moving and Backing Up a Large MySQL Database
问题 I'm using MySQL Workbench and I've built a very large (17 GB) database. MySQL puts the data in a single file called ibdata1 in the C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\data directory. I'm out of space on my C drive and I would like to move it to my external drive. Is it possible to move that ibdata1 file and then tell MySQL to point to another location to find it? Also, if I want to back up that data, can I just copy the ibdata1 file and save it. And then if my computer were stolen or