On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote: > is it possible to make each one of those instances a replicate/slave of > a different master > (thus a backup mysql server in a way?) I just recently finished playing with this. I ended up brining up a dedicated VM for this "backup mysql server". I then created 2 new init scripts (based off the mysqld one) and modified both to point to their respective my.cnf's (with auto startup via chkconfig etc etc). Both have separate data directories, run off 2 separate ports (and socket files) - which are fire walled anyways as I have no requirement for this to be open on the slaves and replicate 2 separate masters :) L. -- Sent using electronic mail