Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 03/29/2011 11:37 PM, Mateusz Kalisiak wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'd like to setup the standard MySQL-DRBD-HA architecture: > - PRIMARY server with MySQL and mounted /dev/drbd0, > - SECONDARY just being standalone and waiting for failover. > Additionally, during normal cluster activity (primary server is fine and > active) I'd like to perform backup of MySQL data, but using only > SECONDARY node. > Did anyone tried such thing? > Maybe such feature would be available somehow in ACTIVE-ACTIVE > architecture (although according to MySQL docs it's not > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/drbd-architecture.html#qandaitem-B-14-3-1-1 > ) Hi, application level backup from your secondary will not readily work. In many cases, you can disconnect DRBD and make binary copies (using dd) from your secondary's backing device. If such a binary copy is good enough for you, you can probably go that way. Cheers, Felix