dasini.net – Diary of a MySQL expert

In one of our previous articles – Setting up Replication with various methods for MySQL 8 – we reviewed how to create a replica with multiple tools.
Now, it is time to perform the same action but with MySQL Shell.

Since MySQL 8.0.22 there is a mechanism in asynchronous replication that makes the receiver automatically try to re-establish an asynchronous replication connection to another sender, in case the current connection gets interrupted due to the failure of the current sender.

Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.18 released on October 14, 2019.

This presentation is a summary of the MySQL 8.0.17 new features.

Up to MySQL 8.0.16, to perform these tasks you could:
– Use MySQL Enterprise Backup :
– Use mysqldump

Starting with MySQL 8.0.17, the easiest and recommended method is to use the CLONE feature.

Like I stated in my previous article – MySQL InnoDB Cluster – Recovering and provisioning with mysqldump :
“As the administrator of a cluster, among others tasks, you should be able to restore failed nodes and to add (or remove) new nodes”.
Well, I still agree with myself 🙂
MySQL customers using a Commercial Edition have access to MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) which provide enterprise-grade physical backup and recovery for MySQL.
MEB delivers hot, online, non-blocking backups on multiple platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac & Solaris.

As the administrator of a cluster, among other tasks, you should be able to restore failed nodes and grow (or shrink) your cluster by adding (or removing) new nodes.
In MySQL, as a backup tool (and if your amount of data is not too big), you can use mysqldump a client utility that performs logical backups.
The results are SQL statements that reproduce the original schema objects and data.
For substantial amounts of data however, a physical backup solution such as MySQL Enterprise Backup is faster, particularly for the restore operation.
But this is the topic of my next blog post 🙂

Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.16 released on April 25, 2019

Q: Validate an instance for MySQL InnoDB Cluster usage?

A: Use check_instance_configuration()

MySQL InnoDB Cluster – HowTo #1 – Monitor your cluster

Q: How do I monitor the status & the configuration of my cluster?

A: Use status() or status({extended:true}) or status({queryMembers:true})?