I'm looking to create a partial copy of a massive MySQL relational database. The DB is too large to be able to replicate fully.
I'm looking for a tool that would accept as inputs
* a database
* specification of relationships between the tables in the schema
* a root set of records across one or more tables...
and it would copy over the root records and all related records into another MySQL database, resulting in a smaller, but functional copy of the database.
I recall seeing a tool feature in HN to do this, but despite searching for a while, I couldn't find it. Would appreciate any suggestions for appropriate tools from the community.
