MariaDB 10.0.22 I saw weird things a couple of times: I start clean MariaDB with theses options in the configuration file: foo.replicate_wild_do_table = foo_live.% foo.replicate_ignore_table = foo_live.schema_updates Then I execute RESET SLAVE "foo" ALL just to be sure there is no such connection. Then I import the dump of master, and set master options like host, user, password, etc. Then I execute START SLAVE "foo" Then SHOW SLAVE "foo" reveals empty 'Replicate_Wild_Do_Table' and 'Replicate_Ignore_Table'. (And replication shortly breaks, because foo_live.schema_updates wasn't imported). I can fix this by restarting MariaDB. I'd expect the foo.replicate_* options are taking effect anytime. As a work-around I'd set those options dynamically after dump is imported. (I will fill MDEV in case it is confirmed as a bug)