Preface

High availability is a regular requirement for databases, and it can be challenging to get it right. There are several different strategies for making MySQL, an open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), highly available. This may be needed to protect the database from hardware failures, software crashes, or user errors.

Running a MySQL database is fairly simple, but achieving high availability can be complicated. Many of the techniques have out-of-date, conflicting, and sometimes poor documentation. This book will provide you with the recipes showing you how to design, implement, and manage a highly-available MySQL environment using MySQL Cluster, MySQL Replication, block-level replication with DRBD, and shared storage ...

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