How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster With MySQL 5.1

This tutorial is based on Falko Timme’s tutorial for MySQL Cluster 5.0. It shows how to configure a MySQL 5.1 cluster with five nodes: 1 x management, 2 x storage nodes and 2 x balancer nodes. This cluster is load-balanced by an Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).
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Turbo charging MySQL by setting up the query cache

To make sure MySQL uses the query cache, there are a few variables you need to set in the configuration file . Usually its my.cnf or my.ini so check on your server with the shell command locate , in our case we are running on a CentOS 5.2  distro and to its my.cnf located in /etc so we opened it by using :   nano /etc/my.cnf

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Moving mySQL DBs between servers

Moving mySQL DBs from one server to another:

mysqldump -uUSER -pPASSWORD txp_database > txp_database.sql

puts the entire thing in one nicely portable text file.

on a new server it takes

mysql -uUSER -pPASSWORD txp_database < txp_database.sql

to import it.

Taking backup of mysql database using cron

Taking backup of mysql database using cron

Create a file called database_backup.sh and also an empty directory called mysql_backup. The database_backup.sh script should have the following info :

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How can I repair corrupt MySQL tables?

How can I repair corrupt MySQL tables?

Every so often, MySQL
tables have a way of corrupting themselves. MySQL offers a quick and
painless method of repairing those tables.

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