June 19, 2013

Post: MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL

to the schema file create a schema-post file that has the triggers # mysqldump … -d -t How toqueries tostop-never” Useful to mirror the binlogs on the master to a second server. Allows you toMySQL

Post: Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL

MySQL (and variants) for the last couple of years and it has always been interesting to hear customer thoughts on howto alter MySQL‘s default behavior i.e. disabling and totally disallowing use of query

Post: MySQL Replication vs DRBD Battles

…from the database’s standpoint. And, nothing stops you from running two databases on …queries on last month. All last month will be hot on the slave which is doing reads but only lastto ensured consistency – MySQL Replication can out of sync – and there is bunch of tips in documentation of how to

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.0.1 and 1.0.2 released

to get that one last table checksummed when there is a lot of load and set up pt-kill to kill the queriesto read the documentation on 99 command-line options to learn how toto stop it for any reason, it’s graceful about that, and then it’s easy to resume. Many thanks to

Post: Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup

to do atomic snapshot of many volumes. Lets speak a bit about howto MySQL and run FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK Note – this command may take a while to complete if you have long running queriesto keep some of laststopping them – you just need to use SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of SHOW MASTER STATUS to

Post: Is disk Everything for MySQL Performance ?

how many disks they have instead of how many systems they have” on MySQL…hours reporting query or 5 …to stop the database, but they usually can keep the same RAID volume. I tend toto keep Binary Logs on the separate volume – you may need them to do point in time recovery if you want to recover to last

Post: Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool

last inbound packet until the first outbound packet. For many simple protocols such as HTTP and MySQL, this is the moral equivalent of a query‘s response time. The statistics we chose toto tune this exchange, so if you have suggestions on how to… production servers without stopping it and have …

Post: Living with backups

…from MySQL data directory will result in a total disaster after MySQL stops responding to the incoming queries quick …a utility called ionice. It allows to affect how I/O scheduler will be dealing … WNOHANG); if ($kid > 0) { last; } sleep(1); } What this script does is to check MySQL status every …

Post: Faster Point In Time Recovery with LVM2 Snaphots and Binary Logs

…? Let me show you quickly how. This howto assumes that …Query OK, 300024 rows affected (6.51 sec) Rows matched: 300024  Changed: 300024  Warnings: 0 With the lastto the original LV. [root@sb logs]# /etc/init.d/mysql stop Shutting down MySQL (Percona Server)….. [ OK ] [root@sb logs]# umount /mysql

Post: Troubleshooting Relay Log Corruption in MySQL

…or slave’s MySQL code. If you want to check the master…TO to re-point replication to Relay_Master_Log_File:Exec_Master_Log_Pos: localhost:(none)> slave stop; Query…all the logs needed to re-fetch events. How would you know…to resync them. Last method works in particularly well in case you can afford to