June 18, 2013

Post: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions

… to some questions. Do you need MySQL High-Availability? That question is quite obvious but some times, it is skipped. It can… can be built remotely through a KVM over IP and adequate remote power management, an on site intervention with physical access to the servers is the preferred way, especially for the most complex solutions. Proof of concept Migration to Production MySQL

Post: A recovery trivia or how to recover from a lost ibdata1 file

…, 40 GB of data) the schema in sql format No remote access Their first question was “Is it possible to recover the… the tablespace At this point I should have access to the table but, although MySQL was not complaining, the data was not…/lib/mysql before the first run to make sure I could restart if needed, which of course, I did a few times

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 1: High Availability

… running with 2 nodes too. 2. Each Node is regular MySQL / Percona Server setup. The point is that you can convert your existing MySQL / Percona Server into Node and roll Cluster using it as… locally, no need for remote access. No central management. You can loose any node at any point of time, and the cluster will…

Post: MySQL 5.6: Improvements in the Nutshell

… available in MySQL 5.6… – Replication Event Checksums – Time Delayed Replication – Server… Reduced Overhead – - Simplified Configuration – - Table Access instrumentation – - Statements instrumentation – - Stages …/Export for Partitioned Tables – Remote Binlog Backup – Innodb Transportable…

Post: Living with backups

…and such access pattern may be preferred by the I/O scheduler over random I/O coming from MySQL, …kept there for a long time. Since memory access is way faster than any disk access, even with the fastest …is redirected through the pipe over SSH to a remote host where a script reads the standard input …

Post: How much overhead DRDB could cause ?

…. So this is the access pattern which is often going to define your MySQL on DRBD Performance. Lets … the block over network, executing it on the remote node and responding with ACK, assuming the DRBD … requests. This means DRBD slow down things 3 times+ writes. There is nothing wrong with DRBD, it …