At work we have just recently started moving our data to Azure Cloud. We still have the old on-premise setup running, with databases and web servers.
To make the move to Azure Cloud, I have used a lot of time prepping the terraform scripts to handle our servers, but I have only recently been able to make a copy of the current database (with a whopping 1.7TB of data) and copy it to the cloud.
It took a few days to insert the data into Azure MySQL, so after getting a replication error today, I was not ready to drop the replica database, to insert a fresh dump.
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