To get more familiar with docker and to create a test setup for MySQL Cluster I created docker images for the various components of MySQL Cluster (a.k.a. NDB Cluster) At first I created a Fedora 20 container and ran all components in one container. That worked and is quite easy to setup. But that's not how one is supposed to use docker. So I created Dockerfile 's for all components and one base image. The base image: contains the MySQL Cluster software has libaio installed has a mysql user and group  serves as a base for the other images The management node (ndb_mgmd) image: Has ndb_mgmd as entrypoint Has a config.ini for the cluster config Should be started with " --name=mymgm01 " The data node (ndbmtd) image: Has ndbmtd as entrypoint Uses the connect string: " host=${MGM01_PORT_1186_TCP_ADDR}:1186 " Should be started with " --link mymgm01:mgm01 " to allow it to connect to the management node. You should create 2 container...

MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.10 support backups to the cloud. The only supported cloud service is Amazon S3. When the cloud destination is used mysqlbackup will upload the backup as an image file. You can specify all options on the commandline: mysqlbackup --cloud-service=s3 --cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1 \ --cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B \ --cloud-secret-access-key=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 \ --cloud-bucket=meb_myserver --cloud-object-key=firstbackup --cloud-trace=0 \ --backup-dir=/tmp/firstbackup --backup-image=- --with-timestamp backup-to-image But you can also put the settings in the my.cnf [mysqlbackup_cloud] cloud-service=s3 cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1 cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B cloud-secret-access-key=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 cloud-bucket=meb_myserver cloud-trace=0 backup-dir=/data/cloudbackup backup-image=- with-timestamp The with-timestamp option is important as the backup won't start if the backup-dir already...

This Tuesday Markus Winand will talk at the MySQL User Group NL meetup about "Indexes: The neglected performance all-rounder" . Markus is known for the http://use-the-index-luke.com website and the SQL Performance Explained book. Date: Tuesday August 12 Location: Marktplaats/eBay Office Amsterdam Registration: http://www.meetup.com/MySQL-User-Group-NL/events/196440532/