Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Thank you very much for advices. I'm going to test your propositions and I'll let you know how they've worked. Regards, Mateusz 2011/3/30 Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx at telenet.be> > > > On 03/30/11 15:46, Felix Frank wrote: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >> > > What you also might try (at your own risk) is to have LVM involved, > snapshot the whole deal in the secondary, mount it and start mysql with the > mount as data directory. Next backup from there. > > It's interesting to try I think. > > B. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20110331/3d1b3cbf/attachment.htm>