How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL
using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for
hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master
and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a
database from a master server on another server (slave), and all
updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated
to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync.
This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE
command will also be carried out on the slave; but replication can help
protect against hardware failures though.