Shall I use MySQL replication to synchronize a local database and a remote database? If so, how do I setup both master and slave? Are there any other methods available to do
Full chapter on replication:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/hpmysql/chapter/ch07.pdf
and also very detailed here:
http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/mysql-replication-excerpt-5.1-en.a4.pdf