Since I'm making a full backup of my entire debian system, I was thinking if having a copy of /var/lib/mysql directory is a viable alternative to dumping tables with mysqldump.

  • are all informations needed contained in that directory?
  • can single tables be imported in another mysql?
  • can there be problems while restoring those files on a (probably slightly) different mysql server version?
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