Here’s a quick checklist on how to setup replication.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-7432/ar01s05.html gives more information.

First on the master server’s my.cnf or my.ini file comment out these lines:

#skip-networking
#bind-address            = 127.0.0.1

Then in the [mysqld] section add:

log-bin=mysql-bin

server-id=1

Then restart MySQL with

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now create a user on the master that the slave can use to connect:

GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO ‘slave_user’@'%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘<SOME PASSWORD>’;

GRANT REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO ‘slave_user’@'%’;

Then get the master status with:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

USE exampledb;

FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;

SHOW MASTER STATUS;

Make a note of log file name and position – you’ll need it later. Then backup the master database and restore to the slave or copy it using SQLYog.

Then add to the slave’s my.cnf or my.ini file:

server-id=2 

and restart the slave MySQL server then execute:

STOP SLAVE;

CHANGE MASTER TO 

MASTER_HOST=’<MASTER IP ADDRESS>’,

MASTER_USER=’slave_user’,

MASTER_PASSWORD=’XXXXX’,

MASTER_LOG_FILE=’mysql-bin.000001′,

MASTER_LOG_POS=98;

START SLAVE;

Sorry if this is short on detail but this is just my experience on how to get replication working, the detail can be Googled elsewhere ;-)