This HOWTO discusses two (unrelated) issues with mylvmbackup: The minimal privileges required to take MySQL backups with mylvmbackup. Making (non compressed) file system copy of one’s data files. Minimal privileges Some just give mylvmbackup the root account, which is far too permissive. We now consider what the minimal requirements of mylvmbackup are. The queries mylvmbackup [...]
LVM uses copy-on-write to implement snapshots. Whenever you’re writing data to some page, LVM copies the original page (the way it looked like when the snapshot was taken) to the snapshot volume. The snapshot volume must be large enough to accommodate all pages written to for the duration of the snapshot’s lifetime. In other words, [...]
Revision 170 of mycheckpoint, a MySQL monitoring solution, has been released. New and updated in this revision: Improved custom queries: lifting of limitations from previous, introductory revision; better HTML presentation Local, inline charting: no rendering of Google Charts, unless explicitly requested. All charts are now rendered locally using JavaScript. No data is now sent over [...]
I’ve written shortly on this before. I like yum; I love apt-get; I prefer not to use them for MySQL installations. I consider a binary tarball to be the best MySQL installation format (source installations being a different case altogether). Why? I use yum and apt-get whenever I can and for almost all needs (sometimes [...]
Revision 76 of mycheckpoint comes with quite a few improvements, including: OS monitoring (CPU, load average, memory) Auto-deploy Improved charting Brief HTML reports 24/7 charts OS Monitoring When monitoring the local machine, mycheckpoint now monitors CPU utilization, load average, memory and swap space. This only applies to the Linux operating system; there is currently no [...]
Installing a single MySQL instance on a linux machine is a very simple operation. It may be as simple as: apt-get install mysql-server But you cannot use this method to install another MySQL instance. Moreover, if you try to manually install another instance, you may find that some collisions occur. For example, when trying to [...]