Join Percona’s, Technical Services Manager, Jervin Real as he presents Lock, Stock and Backup: Data Guaranteed on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Reserve Your Spot Backups are crucial in a world where data is digital and uptime is revenue. Environments are no longer bound to traditional data […]
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Join Percona’s, Architect, Manjot Singh as he presents Database Backup and Recovery Best Practices (with a Focus on MySQL) on Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now In the case of a failure, do you know how long it will take to restore your database? Do you […]
Read MoreIn this post, we’ll look at strategies for backups and disaster recovery. Note: I am giving a talk on Backups and Disaster Recovery Best Practices on July 27th. Register Now When discussing disaster recovery, it’s important to take your business’ continuity plan into consideration. Backup and recovery processes are a critical part of any application […]
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In this blog post, I’ll look at how you can use a backup to start a secondary instance for MongoDB. Although the documentation says it is not possible to use a backup to start a secondary, sometimes this is the only possible way to start a new instance. In this blog post, we will explain how […]
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Join Percona’s Senior Operations Engineer, Daniel Kowalewski as he presents Deploying MySQL in Production on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now MySQL is famous for being something you can install and get going in less than five minutes in terms of development. But normally you want […]
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In this blog post, I will cover the Percona-Lab/mongodb_consistent_backup tool and the improvements in the 1.0.1 release of the tool. Percona-Lab/mongodb_consistent_backup mongodb_consistent_backup is a tool for performing cluster consistent backups on MongoDB clusters or single-replica sets. This tool is open source Python code, developed by Percona and published under our Percona-Lab GitHub repository. Percona-Lab is […]
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Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration […]
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TokuDB Hotbackup is a solution that allows you to do backups on the fly. It works as a library that intercepts certain system calls that duplicate data written to already copied parts of files, so that at the end of the backup process the copied files contain the same content as the original files. There are several […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at a workaround for MySQL bug 72804. Recently I worked on a ticket where a customer performed a point-in-time recovery PITR using a large set of binary logs. Normally we handle this by applying the last backup, then re-applying all binary logs created since the last backup. In the middle of the […]
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In this blog, we’ll discuss how to use concurrency to help with WAN latency when using synchronous clusters. WAN Latency Problem Our customers often ask us for help or advice with WAN clustering problems. Historically, the usual solution for MySQL WAN deployments is having the primary site in one data center, and stand-by backup site in […]
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