first colon is interpreted as a separator and subsequent colons are literal colons. See Section 17.2.5.4, “Replication Channel Based Filters”  for more information. Global replication filters cannot be used on a MySQL server instance that is configured for Group Replication, because filtering transactions on some servers would make the group unable to reach agreement on a consistent state. Channel specific replication filters can be used on replication channels that are not directly involved with Group Replication, such as where a group member also acts as a replica to a source that is outside the group. They cannot be used on the  group_replication_applier  or  group_replication_recovery channels. As an example,  --replicate-wild-ignore-table=foo%.bar%  does not replicate updates that use a table where the database name starts with  foo  and the table name starts with  bar . For information about how matching works, see the description of the  --replicate-wild-do-table option. The rules for including literal wildcard characters in the option value are the same as for  -- replicate-wild-ignore-table  as well. Note Replication and Binary Logging Options and Variables • --skip-slave-start Command-Line Format --skip-slave-start[={OFF|ON}] System Variable skip_slave_start Scope Global Dynamic No SET_VAR  Hint Applies No Type Boolean Default Value OFF Tells the replica server not to start the replication I/O and SQL threads when the server starts. To start the threads later, use a  START REPLICA | SLAVE  statement. From MySQL 8.0.24, you can use the  skip_slave_start  system variable in place of the command line option to allow access to this feature using MySQL Server’s privilege structure, so that database administrators do not need any privileged access to the operating system. • --slave-skip-errors=[ err_code1 , err_code2 ,...|all|ddl_exist_errors] 3515 Command-Line Format --slave-skip-errors=name System Variable slave_skip_errors Scope Global Dynamic No SET_VAR  Hint Applies No Type String Default Value OFF Valid Values OFF [list of error codes]