On July 21, 2020, Percona delivered an updated version of our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) focused on easing deployment and operations management of a clustered MySQL environment. Included in the Percona Distribution for MySQL, our Operator is based on the best practices for MySQL cluster configuration and setup in Kubernetes. This update adds a variety of important new features including:

Smart Update to Safely and Reliably Upgrade your PXC Environment Automatically
We implemented a new update strategy called Smart Update. Smart Update is aware of the context of your environment and minimizes the number of failover events that need to occur to fully upgrade a …

The MySQL Shell or mysqlsh version 8.0.21 comes with three new utilities to perform logical backups and restore. They were designed to make it easier to move your 5.7 or 8.0 data to the new MySQL Data Service but also work well by themselves. They feature compression, the ability to show the progress of the activity, and can spread the work over multiple threads.

The util.dumpInstance() utility will backup the entire MySQL Instance, util.dumpSchemas() lets you determine which schemas (or databases) to backup, and util.loadDump() is the restoration tool.

Backing Up Instances
util.dumpInstance("/tmp/instance",{ "showProgress" : "true" })
<some output omitted for brevity>
1 thds dumping - 100% (52.82K rows / ~52.81K rows), 0.00 rows/s, 0.00 B/s uncompressed, 0.00 B/s compressed          …

On Monday, July 13, 2020, Oracle released MySQL 8.0.21.  This release contained a few new changes that cause issues with Percona XtraBackup.

First, this release introduced the ability to temporarily disable InnoDB redo logging (see the work log and documentation).  If you love your data, this feature should ONLY be used to speed up an initial logical data import and should never be used under a production workload.

When used, this new feature creates some interesting complications for Percona XtraBackup that you need to be aware of.  The core requirement for XtraBackup to be able to make consistent hot backups is to have some form of redo or write ahead log to copy and read from.  Disabling the InnoDB redo log will prevent XtraBackup from making a …

The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster can send backups to Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage. And every now and then at Support, we are asked how to send backups to Google Cloud Storage.

Google Cloud Storage offers an “interoperability mode” which is S3-compatible. However, there are a few details to take care of when using it.

Google Cloud Storage Configuration

First, select “Settings” under “Storage” in the Navigation Menu. Under Settings, select the Interoperability tab. If Interoperability is not yet enabled, click Enable Interoperability Access. This turns on the S3-compatible interface to Google Cloud Storage.

After enabling S3-compatible storage, an access key needs to be generated. There are two options: Access keys can be tied to Service accounts or User accounts. For …

Group Replication distributed recovery is one of the key features and until now it was restricted to be executed over one mysql connection point automatically defined on mysql system variables port and host.

With group_replication_recovery_endpoints we can specify through which interfaces can group replication recovery take place for a given member so that it controls where recovery traffic flows in the network infrastructure.…

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MySQL 8.0 finally allows you to use roles to grant privileges. Most companies are now required to fulfill stricter security requirements, one of those requirements is each user must login using their own username. Roles allow you to grant individual … Continue reading →

Yesterday (17/Jul/2020) I’ve added a separate feed for MySQL topics. It can be accessed at the address https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/feed/mysql.xml (also represented by the dolphin icon in the navigation bar of the blog).

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a backup of MySQL databases on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, ...

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The MySQL team is proud to announce the general availability of version 8.0.21 of the MySQL Shell.

MySQL Shell Logical Dump and Load Utilities

A new suite of logical dump utilities was introduced in MySQL Shell 8.0.21.
util.dumpInstance(), util.dumpSchemas() and util.loadDump()…

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MySQL Group Replication allows you to create an highly-available replication group of servers with minimum effort. It provides automated mechanisms to detect and respond to failures in the members of the group. The response depends on the characteristics of each failure and it is configurable.…

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