[ale] MySQL Replication Question

[Keith Hopkins ALE]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> With the help of Sid and the ALE-NW Presentation in July I've finally
> gotten around to setting up replication.  I've got one customer who has
> bought hardware so we can replicate his data.  So far it is working and
> I'm in the process of writing perl scripts to monitor the replication
> and notify him when there are failures.
> 
> One thing our system does is contact each customer's server via ssh and
> does a mysqldump every morning at 3am.  I would like to do replication
> instead.  Is it possible to create one slave and have it replicate from
> many masters?
> 
> 

As long as you are not duplicating database/table names, sure.  If each master has the same database/table name then, I'm not sure what would happen.

--Keith