David Shrewsbury: Simple Drizzle Replication Example Using the Slave Plugin
In this blog post, I thought that I'd cover, in a bit more detail, setting up a simple replication setup between two drizzle servers using the new replication slave plugin. If you've used MySQL replication before, you should find some of the concepts very similar. I'll only cover the simplest of examples (single master, single slave) and also explain how to provision a new slave into an existing setup.So you've downloaded the latest and greatest version of Drizzle and want to setup replication. Where do you start? The very first thing to do is to make certain that both master and slave share the same version of Drizzle to avoid any potential incompatibility issues. Then you setup your master.
Master Setup
Setting up the master is the easiest step. The only thing you really have to do here is to make sure that the master Drizzle database server is started with the --innodb.replication-log op! tion. Something along the lines of:
master> sbin/drizzled --datadir=$PWD/var --innodb.replication-log &
For more complex setups, you'll also want to consider using the --server-id option, but the default for that is fine for this example. That option is documented here.
With the master running, you can optionally now create a backup of any databases to be imported on the new slave. You would use drizzledump to make such a backup. In this example, I'm keeping it simple and assuming that we are starting with a fresh database with no data.
Slave Setup
Now that you have the master running, you can setup your slave. Starting the slave is almost as simple a! s starting the master. You will need to use two options to the Drizzle database server on the slave: --plugin-add=slave and --slave.config-file.
slave> sbin/drizzled --datadir=$PWD/var \
--plugin-add=slave \
--slave.config-file=/tmp/slave.cfg &
These options tell the server to load the slave plugin, and then tells the slave plugin where to find the slave host configuration file. This configuration file has options to specify the master host and a few options to control how the slave operates. You can read more about the available configuration options in the replication slave plugin documentation. Below is a simple example:
master-host = kodiak
master-port = 3306
master-user = kodiak_slave
master-pass = my_password
io-thread-sleep = 10
applier-thread-sleep = 10
Most of these options have sensible defaults, and it should be pretty obvious what most of them are for. The plugin documentation referenced above describes them in more complete detail if you need more information.
So once you start the slave as described above, it will immediately connect to the master host specified in the configuration file and begin pulling events from the InnoDB-based transaction log. By default, a freshly provisioned slave will begin pulling from the beg! inning of this transaction log. Once all replication messages have bee n pulled from the master and stored locally on the slave host, the IO thread will sleep and periodically awaken to check for more messages. That's all fine and dandy for your first slave machine in a brand new replication setup, but how do you insert another slave host into an already existing replication architecture? I'm glad you asked!
Provisioning a New Slave Host
We've recently made some changes that makes provisioning a new slave host very easy.
So, the basic formula for creating a new slave host for an existing replication setup is:
- Make a backup of the master databases.
- Record the state of the master transaction log at the point the backup was made.
- Restore the backup on the new slave machine.
- Start the new slave and tell it to begin reading the transaction log from the point recorded in #2.
Steps #1 and #2 are covered with the drizzledump client program. If you use the --single-transaction option to drizzledump, it will place a comment near the beginning of the dump output with the InnoDB transaction log metadata. For example:
master> drizzledump --all-databases --single-transaction > master.backup
master> head -1 master.backup
-- SYS_REPLICATION_LOG: COMMIT_ID = 33426, ID = 35074
The SYS_REPLICATION_LOG line gives us the replication log metadata we need when we start a new slave. It has two pieces of information:
- COMMIT_ID - This value is the commit sequence number recorded for the most recently executed transaction stored in the transaction log. We can use t! his value to determine proper commit order within the log. The unique transaction ID cannot be used since that value is assigned when the transaction is started, not when it is committed.
- ID - This is the unique transaction identifier associated with the most recently executed transaction stored in the transaction log.
With this step done, we can now do steps #3 and #4 to start the new slave. First, you must start the slave WITHOUT the replication slave plugin enabled. We don't want it reading from the master until we've imported the backup. So start it without the plugin enabled, import your backup, then shutdown the server:
slave> sbin/drizzled --datadir=$PWD/var &
slave> drizzle < master.backup
slave> drizzle --shutdown
Now that the backup is imported, we c!
an restart the slave with the replication slave plugin enabled and use a new option, --slave.max-commit-id, to force the slave to begin reading the master's transaction log at the proper location:
slave> sbin/drizzled --datadir=$PWD/var \
--plugin-add=slave \
--plugin-add=slave \
--slave.config-file=/tmp/slave.cfg \
--slave.max-commit-id=33426 &
We give the
Conclusion
So that's all there is to it. I hope you find this example useful and it encourages you to begin trying out Drizzle replication. Be sure to report any bugs and enhancements you'd like to see to our bug system. And don't forget that we have Drizzle Developer Day after the MySQL User Conference this year on April 15th. Be sure to sign up for that and come chat with us face-to-face about replication and anything else Drizzle related. :)
Happy Replicating.
URL: http://dshrewsbury.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-drizzle-replication-example.html
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