January 8, 2013
Convert Percona Xtrabackup to mysqldump
Recently I needed to restore a MMM (MySQL MultiMaster) cluster after both databases become corrupted for various reasons. Evaluating the environment it was decided that we should use the current active node as a true state and use this as a replication point, and provide database backups so that transactions could be played back manually if required.
We use Pecona Xtrabackup for a large number of clients and this was the case this time as well.
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