Today marks the first release of Drizzle Tools for MySQL servers. Drizzle Tools aims to be a collection of useful utilities to use with MySQL servers based around the work on the Libdrizzle Redux project.
In this first version there is one utility in the tree called 'drizzle-binlogs'. If you've seen me talk about this tool before it is because it used to be included in the Libdrizzle 5.1 source but has now been moved here to be developed independently. For those who haven't 'drizzle-binlogs' is a tool which connects to a MySQL server as a slave, retrieves the binary log files and stores them locally. This could be used as part of a backup solution or a rapid way to help create a new MySQL master server.
Due to the API changes before the Libdrizzle API became stable [Read more...]