Re: replication newbie questions

2013-08-28 Thread Ananda Kumar
if i u have LVM's then lock is held only for the duration of taking snapshot, which would be few min, if there is very less activity on the db. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Ed L. wrote: > On 8/28/13 2:00 PM, Ananda Kumar wrote: > > > Why don't u try snapshot backups, where the lock held fo

Re: replication newbie questions

2013-08-28 Thread Ed L.
On 8/28/13 2:00 PM, Ananda Kumar wrote: Why don't u try snapshot backups, where the lock held for less duration. Or can't u take mysql dumps during Night time when there is less bd activity I neglected to mention these systems are both CentOS linux systems. Unfortunately, the 5.5 hour dumps

Re: replication newbie questions

2013-08-28 Thread Ananda Kumar
Why don't u try snapshot backups, where the lock held for less duration. Or can't u take mysql dumps during Night time when there is less bd activity On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Ed L. wrote: > > Mysql newbie here, looking for some help configuring 5.0.45 master-slave replication. Here's my sce

replication newbie questions

2013-08-28 Thread Ed L.
Mysql newbie here, looking for some help configuring 5.0.45 master-slave replication. Here's my scenario... We have a heavily loaded 30gb 5.0.45 DB we need to replicate via master-slave configuration to a new, beefier server running same mysql 5.0.45, and then cutover to the new server. Du

Re: mysql 5.5 crashed on Debian 6 after server crash

2013-08-28 Thread Simon Loewenthal
Hi, I have managed to get the dB open with [mysqld] innodb_force_recovery = 2 I did a mysqldump for all tables, and restarted with innodb_force_recordy but still have the same old error messages. Regards, S On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Simon Loewenthal < simon.loewent...@gmail.com> wrote

mysql 5.5 crashed on Debian 6 after server crash

2013-08-28 Thread Simon Loewenthal
Hi there, I just had my mysql dB crash really badly on a small server I'm running and wonder if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm pretty basic with mysql... I set up master/slave replication to another site, so this could be a backup, so long as the errors were not replicated o