Are you an SysAdmin who is now responsible for your companies database operations? Then this is the webinar for you. Learn from a Senior DBA the basics you need to know to keep things up-and-running and how automation can help.
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SysAdmin Working from Home? Tips to Automate MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres & MongoDB
1. April 22, 2020
Tips to Automate MySQL,
MariaDB, Postgres & MongoDB
Sebastian Insausti
Presenter
sebastian@severalnines.com
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Who am I?
I have more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications
companies with experience in...
- MySQL Replication, , MySQL Group Replication,
PostgreSQL, Galera Cluster
- Linux OS and Windows Servers
- ModSecurity, Monitoring, Networking, Virtualization
- Ethical Hacking and Security Solutions
- High Availability Environments and DRP Designs
Presenter
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Common DB Operations Tasks
● Deployment
● Monitoring
● Backup Management
● Automatic Failover & Recovery
● User management
● Security
● Ops reports
Demo
● Overview of the most important ClusterControl
features
Agenda
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● Backups:
○ Logical backup: Plain text files with SQL statements.
○ Physical backup: A copy of the datafiles.
● Backup Rotation:
○ Using scripts, external tools or manually rotation.
● Backup Verification:
○ Manually or by scripting.
● Backup External Storage:
○ Manually or by scripting.
● Backup Encryption:
○ Require sysadmin skills.
● PITR:
○ It's restoring the database at any given moment in the past.
Backup Management
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Automatic Failover & Recovery
● Documentation
○ You need to know what to do in case of master failure
● Manual & Automatic Way
○ Manual: E.g. If you need to do it in a maintenance
windows
○ Automatic: In case of master failure, to reduce the
downtime.
○ Both: First automatic, and in case that something went
wrong, run the manual way
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● User
○ Create new users
○ Update existing users
○ Delete users
● Privileges
○ Limit privileges
○ Password requirements
○ Restrict access from an specific host
User Management
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Operational Reports
● What is Happening?
○ Are backups completed?
○ Are upgrade availables?
○ Helps to stay on top of everything
● Historical Information
○ Previous Backups Status
○ Security information
○ Usage
● User-Friendly
○ Graph
○ Color highlighted information