问题:

Shall I use MySQL replication to synchronize a local database and a remote database? If so, how do I setup both master and slave? Are there any other methods available to do this?

回答1:

how to setup master/slave?

This Replication: How to guide has both what you need to do on the master and the slave.

any other methods available to do this

There is also Multi-Master and Circular Replication for MySQL Cluster.

回答2:

Full chapter on replication:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/hpmysql/chapter/ch07.pdf

and also very detailed here:

http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/mysql-replication-excerpt-5.1-en.a4.pdf

回答3:

If you are looking for a simple master-master replication between the servers, you can refer the below site. Just change the ip addresses and the database you want to replicate.

https://gopukrish.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/mysql-master-master-replication/