After I wrote about things you need to know about MySQL backups, a customer contacted me and asked me what I know about SecoBackup for MySQL. I see it has a very low cost and Percona has Amazon accounts for testing purposes, so I quickly downloaded s3sql_2.2.0.1-2.01_i386.deb, installed it, configured it, and gave it a whirl.
Since I just want to see what it does to take a backup, I started up a sandbox running from /tmp/12345 and configured it to backup msandbox:msandbox@127.0.0.1 (I shut down my main mysqld on my laptop to make sure it can’t connect to the default instance).
Then I configured a backup set and tried to take a backup. Right away I saw it isn’t full featured enough. It doesn’t let you specify a port to connect to. This …
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