June 18, 2013

Comment: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size

… it is worth reiterating the point made by AFTAB, crash recovery is far cheaper in modern versions of InnoDB: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_recovery_is_now_faster And from the manual: http://dev.mysql…/en/innodb-performance-recovery.html “If you kept the size of your redo log files artificially low because recovery took a long…

Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup

….  The –apply-logs phase simply utilizes the built in crash recovery and applies the redo-logs to the dirty tablespace and…

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

… are no longer complete or useful for point-in-time recovery. Generally if you’re considering the binary log filtering approach…

Post: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… more zealous.  Pretty interesting to speed up point in time recovery when you dataset is 700GB.  If you google a bit…

Post: How to recover table structure from InnoDB dictionary

To recover a dropped or corrupt table with Percona Data Recovery Tool for InnoDB you need two things: media with records… to have an accurate table definition to ensure a successful recovery. Even an unnoticeable difference like NULL or NOT NULL can…. 0. Download the latest revision of the recovery tool bzr branch lp:percona-data-recovery-tool-for-innodb 1. Compile the dictionary…

Comment: How to recover table structure from InnoDB dictionary

… it http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/innodb-data-recovery-tool:mysql-data-recovery:start . The biggest challenge here is to find… each table – http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/innodb-data-recovery-tool:mysql-data-recovery:advanced_techniques#recovering_the_data_dictionary

Comment: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

We implemented early lock release for InnoDB but didn’t write a paper about it. Unfortunately it broke assumptions for crash recovery so the change was removed.

Post: Finally. How to verify if all MySQL records were recovered

After nearly every recovery case the same question arises: How many MySQL records were …

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL now available

… Jaakola). If MySQL replication threads were started before running wsrep recovery, this would lead to memory corruption and server crash. Bug…

Post: Magic Innodb Recovery self healing

… per table basics. Also if MySQL crashes during recovery lower values of innodb_force_recovery normally would not work. Reading Documentation one… magically healing itself after he was able to complete recovery with innodb_force_recovery=4. So I decided to check if I… innodb_force_recovery settings and see which one allows you to start. – After recovery succeeds you can try restarting with lower recovery setting…