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      7.6.7.14 Clone Plugin Limitations
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   The clone plugin is subject to these limitations:
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      An instance cannot be cloned from a different MySQL server
            series. For example, you cannot clone between MySQL 8.0 and
            MySQL 8.4, but can clone within a series such as MySQL 8.4.1
            and MySQL 8.4.13.
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      Only a single MySQL instance can be cloned at a time.
            Cloning multiple MySQL instances in a single cloning
            operation is not supported.
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      The X Protocol port specified by
      <a class="link" href="x-plugin-options-system-variables.html#sysvar_mysqlx_port">
       <code class="literal">
        mysqlx_port
       </code>
      </a>
      is not
            supported for remote cloning operations (when specifying the
            port number of the donor MySQL server instance in a
      <a class="link" href="clone.html" title="15.7.5 CLONE Statement">
       <code class="literal">
        CLONE
            INSTANCE
       </code>
      </a>
      statement).
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      The clone plugin does not support cloning of MySQL server
            configurations. The recipient MySQL server instance retains
            its configuration, including persisted system variable
            settings (see
      <a class="xref" href="persisted-system-variables.html" title="7.1.9.3 Persisted System Variables">
       Section 7.1.9.3, “Persisted System Variables”
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      .)
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      The clone plugin does not support cloning of binary logs.
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      The clone plugin only clones data stored in
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       InnoDB
      </code>
      . Other storage engine data is not
            cloned.
      <a class="link" href="myisam-storage-engine.html" title="18.2 The MyISAM Storage Engine">
       <code class="literal">
        MyISAM
       </code>
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      and
      <a class="link" href="csv-storage-engine.html" title="18.4 The CSV Storage Engine">
       <code class="literal">
        CSV
       </code>
      </a>
      tables stored in any schema
            including the
      <code class="literal">
       sys
      </code>
      schema are cloned as
            empty tables.
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      Connecting to the donor MySQL server instance through
            MySQL Router is not supported.
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      Local cloning operations do not support cloning of general
            tablespaces that were created with an absolute path. A
            cloned tablespace file with the same path as the source
            tablespace file would cause a conflict.
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