I would like to know whether a MySQL database can be copied from one machine to another using the mysqldump command instead of taking a snapshot by copying the data directory.

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I've been given a task to start transferring the event logs from our various servers to a SQL database to make them more accessible in the short term, and eventually be able to do analysis in the ...