The problem was that we needed to set ALL PRIVILIEGES for the actual db user, NOT ROOT. When you try to run mysqlhotcopy into MySQL as 'root' you get the 'access denied' error.

When you apply all these fixes and actually grant privs to the real
db user, then everything seems to work just fine.

Thanks all!

mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to root@localhost;
mysql> flush privileges;

then it tells me the directory already exists, because –allowold or –addtodest options were not given. But I'm running the script with a wrapper script… anyway, my root user gets the line 178 error, while the actual MySQL user from my normal connects gets the RELOAD line 472 error…

It's a loop! I've gone through the process several times, still get the same things. Also applied the Perl fix to line 835 of mysqlhotcopy to remove the appended name to the front of the db etc. So that worked.

Now what will fix this repeated RELOAD priv. thing? Thanks for the help and ideas!

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DBI connect(';host=localhost;mysql_read_default_group=mysqlhotcopy','',…) failed: Access denied for user 'ecuito_user'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy line 178
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