[TriLUG] Broken MySQL Update ( MariaDB replaced it )

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 10:07:24PM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> 
> >On the other hand, could I roll back and replace MariaDB with MySQL,
> >or am I asking for Database Version trouble?
> 
> Step 1 - do a "mysqldump" (or Maria equivalent) [1].  That will export your
> data to a plain text format.
> 
> After that, I would doubt the changes between the systems would be
> significant enough that you at least could not re-import the data from the
> SQL dump.


Thank you, Alan.

For some reason I had thought that I needed a working MySQL server to
run mysqldump, but you were correct.  I was able to successfully create
a dump, and so I will remove everything that looks like MySQL ( or
MariaDB ) and re-install.  I will report further success.


Brian