Hi Gordan,

…Possibly. That’s worth exploring, even if it means restoring to a new vm and 
then transferring the local DBs across to it if they’ve changed since then, 
thank you.


Simon

From: Gordan Bobic <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 January 2025 08:24
To: Simon Avery <[email protected]>
Cc: sruli67--- via discuss <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MariaDB discuss] MariaDb Master/Replica. How to recover 
replication when reverting Master to an earlier backup?

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Can you roll back the slave to a backup before the point you rolled the master 
back to? If so, assuming you are running with safe settings (sync_binlog=1, 
sync_master_info=1,innnodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1), it should come up and 
catch up from that earlier point, provided your binlog retention goes that far 
back.

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, 09:56 Simon Avery via discuss, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello

We have two Mariadb 10.11.10 servers acting as Master and Replica.

Both have unique local databases, plus seven that are replicated from Master to 
Replica with Replicate_Wild_Do_Table: DB1Name.%, DB2Name.% etc

The size of the replicated databases is just over 1Tb, with the single largest 
being almost 500Gb. Both machines are in vmware and on the same network.

Yesterday, we hit an issue with the Master which required that vm to be 
restored to a backup four hours previously. This got Master back in play, but 
obviously has broken Replication.

Traditional wisdom seems to suggest that I need to recreate this replication 
setup from scratch - ie, stop Master (from changing, ie, close firewall and 
block clients, flush logs), note the Log Position, and then mysqldump each 
database. However, due to the size of these databases, that is going to take 
many hours and we can't accept that downtime for Master.

It's occurred to us that we might speed this up by:

    Stop Master from changing.
    Note Log Position.
    Clone Master's vm to Master-Clone. (< 10 minutes)
    Restart Master.

Then we would be at relative leisure to
[On Clone]
Mysqldump the databases onto a temporary drive.

[On Replica]
DROP the seven databases.
Import the dumped databases from the temporary drive.
Update the log position in config and restart the slave user.
 Then Replica should start syncing from Master again, even if Clone was several 
days old?

Does that sound sensible?

These databases have partitions – is that going to cause issues dumping and 
reimporting them or should I use another method?

Any pitfalls?

Any alternative ways?

Thank you
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