Using replicate-wild-do-table
=% is not the correct way to get complete replication. That would seem sensible, but here's why it isn't:
The replicate-*
options are restrictive by their presence. The *-do-*
options seem to be telling the server what to "do," but in fact they are telling the server what to only do.
The complete absence of any replicate-*
configuration variables means "replicate everything."
In the simplest case, when there are no --replicate-*
options, the slave executes all statements that it receives from the master. Otherwise, the result depends on the particular options given. -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-rules.html
That, I think, is the point you are needing. It holds true for all MySQL 5.x.
Once you enable binary logging, set the server-id values on each machine, synchronize the data sets, CHANGE MASTER TO ...
, and then START SLAVE
, then you should have a working configuration where all DML and DDL will be replicated and your servers will be identical replicas of each other.
If you started out with identical data sets, everything should behave exactly as you would expect it to.
What MySQL replication does best and simplest is replicate entire data sets among servers without any restrictions. Trying to restrict replication to a subset of the data is a process that should carry a warning label that ends with the phrase "...unless you really know what you're doing."
When you use the --replicate-*
options, the document cited above also offers this tip:
it is recommended that you avoid mixing “do” and “ignore” options, or wildcard and nonwildcard options
You are using a mix of these, which adds complexity and may explain why your DDL didn't replicate as you expected it to.
Best Answer
You do not want writes to be replicated from A to B then A better be slave of B, master.
again, to complicate things you can use master-master with replication filters but let's not get there if you do-not wish to.
That said, writing on slave is sort of risky business where you're going to "accidentally" write on databases being replicated from master and that's not good! As long as you're making sure you're only writing to slave-only databases it should be fine. You should choose to create dedicated users for such activity. You might also want to wonder: - What about backups of master data? - What about backups of slave data?
just saying... but yea to answer your question go with master-slave.