23 Feb

Restore dropped MySQL database from binary logs

In this post I will share a scenario of a MySQL database restore from the binary logs.

Recently someone accidentally dropped an important MySQL database and the backup was not present!

As we know the the binary log contains DMLs to table data and that’s where our hope lies. Luckily the binary log retention period (expire_logs_days) was set to 30 days and the CREATE DATABASE was still present in the binary logs.

Thus this restore of the dropped MySQL database can be done from extracting respective DMLs point-in-time. Here we will play the binary logs against a temporary MySQL instance and extract the required database.

Let’s begin.
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03 Feb

MySQL grant syntax & dynamic database using wildcards

I was recently looking at a MySQL grant script to create default system users after server setup.
One of the syntax failed with error and that drew my attention to the details.

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''dbname%'.* to 'dbuser'@'%'' at line 1

21 Jan

Debugging Percona Xtradb (Galera) Cluster node startup / SST errors

We were working on setting up Percona XtraDB (Galera) Cluster following the Documentation for version 5.6+. This blog post is a use-case of a debugging / troubleshooting & fixing different SST issues we faced while bringing-up the cluster nodes.

We already have a successfully bootstrapped node-1 and now we’re adding second node (node-2) which was causing following error.

"2015-01-15 17:33:19 24618 [ERROR] WSREP: Process completed with error: wsrep_sst_xtrabackup --role 'joiner' --address '10.10.10.1' --auth 'sstuser:xxx' --datadir '/var/lib/mysql/' --defaults-file '/etc/my.cnf' --parent '24618'  '' : 32 (Broken pipe)
2015-01-15 17:33:19 24618 [ERROR] WSREP: Failed to read uuid:seqno from joiner script.
2015-01-15 17:33:19 24618 [ERROR] WSREP: SST failed: 32 (Broken pipe)
2015-01-15 17:33:19 24618 [ERROR] Aborting"

31 Dec

MariaDB slave restore using GTID & xtrabackup bug

Recently I happen to work for a MySQL database restore, a pretty exciting task for DBA

Well, backup server was already configured with Holland (backup framework) & Xtrabackup (Percona’s backup tool) which made our lives easier with steps to restore.

Extracted backup command from backup server’s holland.log:

/usr/bin/innobackupex-1.5.1 --defaults-file=/mysql_backups/xtrabackup/20141219_013002/my.cnf --stream=tar --tmpdir=/mysql_backups/xtrabackup/20141219_013002 --slave-info --no-timestamp /mysql_backups/xtrabackup/20141219_013002 > /mysql_backups/xtrabackup/20141219_013002/backup.tar.gz 2 > /mysql_backups/xtrabackup/20141219_013002/xtrabackup.log

27 May

xtrabackup_51: not found & no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options

Recently I happen to setup a new MySQL instance with my tools – a standard MySQL 5.1+, xtrabackup setup and last-hotbackup.tar.gz.

To restore from the backup we used xtrabackup binaries and ran into issues following standard commands (assuming no changes):

To prepare the backup I used apply-log as follows:

$] innobackupex-1.5.1 --defaults-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/backup-my.cnf --apply-log /usr/local/mysql/data --ibbackup xtrabackup_51