Zmanda is a Diamond sponsor of MySQL users conference. Come Visit us at booth 415.
Various membes of our team are also presenting at the conference. If backup of MySQL databases is
of interest to you, you do not want to miss any of the following presentation:

Zmanda Speakers

Keynote: Data Protection for the LAMP Economy
Presenter: Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Time: 9:50am-10:20am
Location: Ballrooms E-H

Track: Security & Database Administration
Topic: MySQL Backup: Roadmap & Vision
Presenters: Paddy Sreenivasan, VP Engineering, Zmanda
Lars Thalmann, Replication & Clustering Technology, MySQL
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Event Information

Topic:
Backup and Recovery of MySQL Clusters

Date and Time:
Thursday, April 12th , 2007 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

Panelist(s) Info:
Shailen Patel - Professional Services Engineer,
Paddy Sreenivasan - VP, Engineering,
Ram “TK” Krishnamurthy - VP, Services and Support

Duration: 1 hour

Description:
Zmanda Recovery Manager [ZRM] for MySQL provides a simple and easy way to backup and recover MySQL clusters. Zmanda Engineers will provide an overview of ZRM for MySQL and demonstrate its ability to backup and restore MySQL cluster.

Event Information

Topic:
Zmanda Management Console for Amanda Enterprise Edition

Date and Time:
Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

Panelist(s) Info:
Shailen Patel - Professional Services Engineer,
Dmitri Joukovski - VP of Product Management,
Ram “TK” Krishnamurthy - VP of Services and Support

Duration: 1 hour

Description:
The recently released Amanda Enterprise Edition 2.6, contains Zmanda Management Console [ZMC]. ZMC is a web-based services that is integrated with the Zmanda Network. This release also includes Amanda Rapid Installer, a very simple and easy to use installation mechanism that installs MySQL, PHP, Apache and all …

Next week, backup experts from Zmanda, will present a webinar on how you can use ZRM for MySQL to backup your MySQL server remotely over the internet. If you are a ISP or host your own site, you would want to attend this webinar. For that matter, the infromation will be useful for any MySQL dba. This is a technical seminar where we will go through step by step of actually implementing the solution. We already published a detailed white paper on this topic. You can get to that white paper by registering with Zmanda Network.

Hope to see you at the Webinar.

Last month, Paddy gave a great webinar on ZRM for MySQL. The playback is available as part of documentation in Zmanda Network, at no cost. You can register to Zmanda Network here. As a follow-up, we will be hosting a very hands on webinar on configuring ZRM for MySQL this Thursday, the 14th of Decemeber at 10.00 am PST. You can register for this webinar here.

DBA’s working in environments where MySQL database is for production critical applications are constantly pushed to their limits. Database Users and DBA’s are humans too. So, a dropped table here or a misconstrued MySQL statement there is not out of ordinary. Recovering from these kinds of user errors is extremely vital to production databases. Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, is a good way to recover from user errors. Consider this example - You [DBA] find out that an user has made an unforced error which is affecting your production database. You further find out that this has happened in the last half hour. Lucky for you, you use ZRM for MySQL in your environment to make nightly backups. You spring into action! You first verify that a nightly backup was run. You then make an incremental backup now. Using ZRM for MySQL, you identify the point at which the user …

Using freely available ZRM for MySQL , you can set up a solution to backup and restore your MySQL database, within minutes. This article has all the details.