Hello Kristian, after master-slave connection part, I proceeded to retrieval of data from master. There are two types of data which provisioning master will have to send, meta-data and row data. Meta-data For this I found only one method, pass output of SHOW CREATE * to slave in 'Query_log_event'. When I was looking for alternatives, I have found MySQL online backup work log where they are describing similar/same problem under High Level Architecture – Decision ( http://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=3574 ). Because of this, I find it unlikely, that there currently is better way. Because meta-data retrieval will take only small fraction of provisioning time, I think, that it could be implemented using 'Ed_connection' class, it executes query in string form and returns result set from within replication thread. Disadvantage of this solution is that query has to go through parser and all steps of generic execution, but on the other hand resulting code will be more independent from exact implementations, their pre-conditions and won’t contain any logical mistakes (locking, etc). Row data For this, same method with 'Ed_connection' could work, but it would be probably too big overhead – parser, result processing. So I created low level loop which goes through records of table and fills them in 'Write_rows_log_event'. Could you please check it, if it looks acceptable and I will then rewrite it to generic form, it is provisioning_send_info::send_table_data() function. https://github.com/f4rnham/server/blob/3d36cbfc20dff73d92ce61168dcc9805d68d3... Right now it is working as expected on small test case. It goes through whole table at once and creates multiple row events when one would be enough. The same file also contains test of 'Ed_connection' and test of slave being able to receive and process 'Query_log_event'. Thanks for advice, Martin.