FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) for MariaDB and MySQL
The FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) for MariaDB and MySQL is an easy to use software to do Backup, Restore and Point-in-Time-Recovery for MySQL, Galera Cluster, MariaDB and Percona Server. It integrates the utilities mysqldump, mysql, mariabackup, xtrabackup and mysqlbackup (MySQL Enterprise Backup).
Sometimes we face the situation where we have a full MySQL database backup done with mysqldump and then we have to restore and recover just one single table out of our huge mysqldump file.
Further our mysqldump backup was taken hours ago so we want to recover all the changes on that table since our backup was taken up to the end.
In this blog article we cover all the steps needed to achieve this goal for MySQL and MariaDB.
We recently run into some troubles with max_allowed_packet size problems during backups with the FromDual Backup/Recovery Manager and thus I investigated a bit more in the symptoms of such problems.
The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) is a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) to operate and manage your MariaDB and MySQL database farms (2 - 99 instances) more easily.
If further provides tools to implement your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) infrastructure.
FromDual Ops Center covers the full life-cycle of a database:
Today a customer with corrupted data files showed up. When we enquired a bit more he told us that he had a broken I/O controller. This is one of the worst things which can happen to you!
The reason is the following: When a I/O controller starts to die it often does not happen immediately. The controller dies slowly producing more and more corrupt data. When you just write data without checking or reading them it can take days or even weeks until you discover the problem.
