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## What testing on replica means
`gh-ost` will make all changes
TL;DR `gh-ost` will make all changes on a replica and leave both original and ghost tables for you to compare.
## Issuing a test drive
Apply `--test-on-replica --host=<a.replica>`.
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- or of course only select the shared columns before/after the migration
- We use the trivial `engine=innodb` for `alter` when testing. This way the resulting ghost table is identical in structure to the original table (including indexes) and we expect data to be completely identical. We use `md5sum` on the entire dataset to confirm the test result.
### Cleanup
It's your job to: