Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread Machiel Richards
Good day all I am hoping someone has had some experience in this to assist me. I have been going through lots of forums and documentation and can find a lot of information on how to setup a master/slave replication on MySQL. The question I have however is how do you fail

Re: Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread a . smith
Quoting Machiel Richards machi...@rdc.co.za: The question I have however is how do you fail over to the slave server in the event that the master server is unavailable and then how to revert back to the master server once the server is available again. Hi, to fail over to the

Re: Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread Johan De Meersman
That's pretty much it, indeed. You need to make absolutely sure that no more connections can be made to the old, broken master, though - even if you have to physically pull the network or power cable. Failover services refer to this as STONITH: Shoot The Other Node In The Head. Don't think but it

Re: Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread John Daisley
You may also want to take a look at MySQL MMM which makes use of Active/passive masters to makes MySQL failover very simple. On 19 October 2010 11:45, Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be wrote: That's pretty much it, indeed. You need to make absolutely sure that no more connections can be

RE: Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Schwartz
...@rdc.co.za] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:15 AM To: mysql mailing list Subject: Failover on master/slave replication Good day all I am hoping someone has had some experience in this to assist me. I have been going through lots of forums and documentation and can find a lot

Re: Failover on master/slave replication

2010-10-19 Thread Walter Heck
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 19:06, John Daisley daisleyj...@googlemail.com wrote: You may also want to take a look at MySQL MMM which makes use of Active/passive masters to makes MySQL failover very simple. +1 We could not do much of our daily work without MMM. It makes the whole HA/Failover