I finally cobbled together an incredibly ugly but functional script for recovering or setting up a slave. The pure hideousness stems from the brute force, lack of error checking, cram that data down the db's throat method that I am leveraging. See, I know just enough to get the job done but not nearly enough to do it with any elegance, flair, or care and concern for stability.
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