Norbert Tretkowski

This morning I prepared and uploaded a Debian package of mylvmbackup, which provides a quick way to create backups of MySQL server's data files using an LVM snapshot. While it's waiting in Debians NEW queue for approval by the FTP masters, you can get it from here. It was built on and uploaded to unstable, but the package works fine on stable (etch) as well.

Today I was contacted by MySQL, they wanted to know If I mind when the MySQL category of my personal weblog would be added to Planet MySQL. Of course I didn't mind, so here I am...

For those of you who want to use MySQL 5.1 on etch, I prepared a backport from the experimental package of MySQL 5.1.22-rc. It's available for amd64 and i386, but will not be uploaded to the backports.org archive until there's a stable release in lenny.

Take a look at the list of Open Issues in MySQL 5.1 before upgrading your servers.

Last night I prepared a Debian package of MySQL Proxy. It still lacks an init script and a manpage, but beside that it works fine. I plan to finish and upload the package to unstable within the next days.

For details about using MySQL Proxy read Getting Started with MySQL Proxy by Giuseppe Maxia.

Yesterday I visited the MySQL Customer Conference in Munich. First of all, GDL sucks. But the locomotive driver strike was the only negative issue on that day, the conference itself was quite good, especially Jan Kneschke's talk about MySQL performance tuning (which was mostly about combining MySQL Cluster and MySQL Proxy) and the panel discussion about storage engines with Ralf Gebhardt, Jan Kneschke and Kai Voigt as vocal and Kaj Arnö as moderator. All in all a great (but quite long and exhausting) day.

Santiago Vila uploaded a backport of base-files 4.0.1 to backports.org, because the package from etch doesn't include the GPLv3 license. If you're going to upload the backport of a package which software is under the GPLv3, please make sure it depends on at least the version of the base-files backport.

I just uploaded lsof 4.79J to experimental. It's a pre-release with support for file flags and file offsets, and requires the new entries from /proc/N/fdinfo/ which are available since Linux 2.6.22.

Test with: sudo lsof -o | grep -e 0t | grep -vwe 0t0