This is how Marten Mickos (MySQL CEO) described the relationship between MySQL and the open source community at MySQL Camp. MySQL Camp held at Google over last weekend, was an useful opportunity to listen and talk to developers in the broad MySQL ecosystem (including Oracle VP) as well as MySQL users.

The most interesting talk was about the efforts made by MySQL folks to attract and reward MySQL community contributors. They have made significant efforts in this direction - MySQL forge, Planet MySQL, MySQL winter of code, MySQL community server and availability of MySQL work logs (roadmap)

We, at Zmanda, also understand the need to have …

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There are several methods to do live MySQL database backups. These methods are either storage engine specific (InnoDB hot backup, mysqlhotcopy), or require read locks (mysqldump), or require additional hardware (backup using replication, LVM snapshot). Some of these backup methods can do backups of remote MySQL servers also. So far, there is no backup method that provides storage engine agnostic, consistent full backups of local and remote servers. Goal of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) of MySQL is to consolidate all these and future methods of MySQL backup and use the optimal method for the MySQL configuration.

One of the exciting developments in MySQL is the development of MySQL Online backup. The …

Yesterday, I was testing various backup and recovery methods supported by ZRM for MySQL before 1.1.1 release. ZRM for MySQL requires binary logging to be enabled on the MySQL server. I ran out of disk space during testing and removed the binary logs. Accidently, I deleted the last binary log used by MySQL server. MySQL server uses the most recent binary log.

I could not start MySQL server again.

# service mysqld start

061031 17:38:48  mysqld started
061031 17:38:48  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 14 1645228884
/usr/libexec/mysqld: File '/var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin.000017' not found
(Errcode: 2)
061031 17:38:48 [ERROR] Failed to open log (file …

Version 1.1.1 of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, a robust and
intelligent solution for backup and recovery of MySQL databases is available
for download at Zmanda downloads page.

Changes since 1.1 release:
* FHS compliance (plugins are now in /usr/share/mysql-zrm directory)
* Bug fixes

ZRM for MySQL users manual is available in the wiki.

Please use bugzilla to report bugs in the release and product improvements.

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is a robust and intelligent solution for live backup and recovery of local and remote MySQL databases. In case you are not familiar with it, take a look at ZRM for MySQL project page.

Key features in 1.1 release
- Backup images can be compressed and encrypted using platform tools
- Custom plugin interfaces for
- Backup encryption
- Pre backup actions
- Post backup actions
- Flexible scheduling
- Binary log parser
- Secure file transfer
- Automatic HTML and Text backup report generation
- Backup reports are available as RSS feed

This is an open source community project. Feel free to check out the project wiki, go to …