Re: Restarting Replication from Backup

2004-10-08 Thread stanner
I meant that it would be beneficial to do the reset on the master at the same time you issue the stop slave, so that the binary log file on the master would only contain updates that are not the backup. It would be very difficult to ensure data integrity though - if an update happened betwe

Re: Restarting Replication from Backup

2004-10-08 Thread stanner
Gary, We go through the process of removing the slave DB and restoring from backup on a fairly regular basis (due to testing new functionality of our app). My first question would be about your backups - how are you doing them? If you are doing a filesystem backup (taring the entire

RE: Replication - promoting slave to master

2004-06-18 Thread stanner
I would need log-bin and log-slave-updates enabled on the slave, correct? So to automate the process it would be better to start both servers without the Master-host info in the conf file, letting Heartbeat issue the commands on startup to convert one box to slave. During a fail-over, heartbe

Replication - promoting slave to master

2004-06-17 Thread stanner
Hello, I've been lurking about the lists for a few months now, hoping to gain some knowledge on MySQL's replication features for HA setup. I have a fairly good understanding of the setup process, but I'm a little confused on one points. We are running a 2 node - master-slave setup, and we are