Restore information

2008-07-21 Thread Warren Windvogel
Hi All, Is there a simple way of checking when the backup db server performed its last restore and whether it was successful or not. I need to ensure that the dump and restore of the production box has run successfully every night until proper backup/DRP procedures are in place. I'm not

Re: Restore information

2008-07-21 Thread Olaf Stein
Is my assumption correct that you dump your main production db and restore it to a second server? And this restore is what you want to verify? Olaf On 7/21/08 8:34 AM, Warren Windvogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Is there a simple way of checking when the backup db server performed its

Re: Restore information

2008-07-21 Thread Ananda Kumar
Hi Warren, R u using any tool/script for backup/restore procedure, if yes, then log files generated by them should let u know, if they were successfull or failed. regards anandkl On 7/21/08, Warren Windvogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Is there a simple way of checking when the backup

Re: Restore information

2008-07-21 Thread Warren Windvogel
Olaf Stein wrote: Is my assumption correct that you dump your main production db and restore it to a second server? And this restore is what you want to verify? That is correct. Warren -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: Restore information

2008-07-21 Thread Olaf Stein
If you do the dump/restore by hand or shell script than the first indicator is if the process finishes without errors. Then you could calculate checksums of your tables on both boxes and compare them, this will obviously only work if the production db has not changed since the dump. Are you doing