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Is it okay to use rsync on InnoDB database if the MySQL server is shutdown?

Is it okay to use rsync on InnoDB database if the MySQL server is shutdown ? For example : /etc/init.d/mysql stop rsync -av /home/mysql/mydb/ root@newserver.com:/home/mysql
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Converting a large SQL Server database to MySQL. Database corruption? Can't access data after transferring

I have gigabytes of tabular data stored in a SQL Server database. I've been trying to migrate it to MySQL using the Migration Toolkit from Oracle. I didn't have any mapping errors and fixed all the ...
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Should I move to InnoDB during a planned migration?

I'm shortly migrating a Debian Lenny webserver to another host and Debian Squeeze. The standard MySQL installation even on Squeeze is 5.1 and therefore would default to MyISAM - I'm inclined to stick ...