I recently needed to configure mysql failover on some of our test machines. Thanks to Sheeri’s helpful blog entry which provides a simple failover lua script, configuring failover is a simple matter. However, the machines are running centos-5.2 and centos doesn’t provide an rpm for mysql-proxy. This blog entry describes how to build your own.
The [...]
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Last month, I had the opportunity to have dinner at Pizzaiolo’s Wood Fired Pizza in Oakland with my friend Jeff Varasano. For those of you who don’t know Jeff, he has become somewhat infamous for reverse-engineering Patsy’s pizza and has a single-page website with all kinds of details about how to make great pizza. He [...]
RHEL/CentOS does not ship with rdiff-backup, and the existing well-known RPM sites only have really old versions. Even the version of rdiff-backup on the Red Hat extras (EPEL) site was last updated over a year ago (July 2007). These instructions work for rdiff-backup-1.2.0 and librsync-0.9.7.
Here are the steps to get it built:
1. Set up your [...]
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