I think I tried that also.  I ended up doing a dump and an import. Thank you all for your help and insight! ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Fri, 8/13/10, Shawn Badger wrote: From: Shawn Badger Subject: Re: Linux CP command To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 7:32 AM Mysql stores the databases in an individual folder for each database. You need to use -r (recursive) option with the cp to make it work properly. Eric had the right syntext in his posting, but the trailing /. isnt' needed. sudo cp -r DB1 DB2 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: sudo cp DB1/* DB2/ should have worked.  The fact that it's giving you a file not found is a little confusing.  My guess is that you have either have a typo in the source database folder name, or more likely you haven't taken into account that Linux file systems are case sensitive. Brian Cluff On 08/12/2010 04:17 PM, keith smith wrote: Hi, For some reason I just don't get the cp command. Maybe it is the deep rooted MS DOS from the 80's and 90's. I spent about a decade using MS DOS. Here is what is going on. I am in a CentOS box and do not ever become root. I use sudo. I want to copy one MySql DB to another so I can use the data for testing. 1) I cd to /var/lib/mysql 2) I can see both DB's 3) I issue any number of commands that do not work. Lets say DB1 is the source directory & DB2 is the destination directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/*.* DB2/ Results: cp: cannot stat `DB1/*.*': No such file or directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/* DB2/ Results: cp: cannot stat `DB1/*': No such file or directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/ DB2/ Results: creates the directory DB1 under DB2 and copies all the files into DB2/DB1 mysql]$ sudo cp DB1 DB2/ Results: does not seem to do anything. http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucp.htm shows this example: cp -r /home/hope/files/* /home/hope/backup mysql]$ sudo cp -r /var/lib/mysql/DB1/* /var/lib/mysql/DB2 - cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/mysql/baseline/*': No such file or directory This is driving me crazy. Any help much appreciated! ------------------------ Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss