Rebuilding corrupt slave by copying mysql folder

Question

Rebuilding an existing slave from a master using cold-copying of /var/lib/mysql, would this be the proper process/order? Anything missing?

1. master mysql> SHOW MASTER STATUS\G (take notes)
2. slave mysql> STOP SLAVE;
3. Shut down master and slave mysqld
4. Move existing slave:/var/lib/mysql out of the way
5. Copy master:/var/lib/mysql to slave:/var/lib/mysql
6. Start master mysqld
7. Start slave mysqld
8. slave mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='masterserver',
-> MASTER_USER='replicationusername',
-> MASTER_PASSWORD='replcationpassword',
-> MASTER_LOG_FILE='logfilefromshowmasterstatus',
-> MASTER_LOG_POS=positionfromshowmasterstatus;
9. slave mysql> start slave;

Answer 1

I'd suggest referring to a following link:

MySQL MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual 16.1.1 How to Set Up Replication

Answer 2

Other pieces to add to the mix:

step 6.5 Check permissions after moving files

Step 7 - restart slave with mysqld_safe --skip-slave-start &

Answer 3

1.- Stop master and slave mysqld.

2.- On slave move /var/lib/mysq/ to someplace else.

3.- Copy /var/lib/mysql from master to slave.

4.- Check permissions on slave.

5.- On slave (/etc/my.cnf) set --skip-slave-start

6.- Start master and slave mysqld

7.- On slave point to the new master binlog file just created, on position 4.

8.- start slave io_thread, then see if everything is okay

9.- start slave sql_thread and wait the slave to get up to date.

That's it.