Is there a simple way to merge a broken 2-way-MySQL replication

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Published on 2010-05-18T11:24:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 11:31 UTC
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Hello,

I have a two way replication setup, with geographically distinct servers. Replication has broken, but I don't want to just choose one as master. Is there some way to restore replication in such a way that the two databases will be re-merged?

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