We currently have a physical db server on premise, running mySql version 5.6. We have another instance set up on an Azure virtual machine, as we are in the process of migrating our data center to Azure.
We don't have a dedicated DBA, and we are following the steps in this tutorial from the mySql site:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication-howto-additionalslaves.html
We keep failing on the 2nd step of copying the data directory, is there a workaround for this, or a better way to go about replicating?