[LRUG] Idempotency vs the cloud

[David Salgado]

You have no idea how happy you've just made me ;)

On 17 July 2013 14:51, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can (apparently) now stream the mysql bin log from your rds instance,
> which is I think all you really need for replication. I've seen a few blog
> posts[1] that claim to show how to use this to setup replication although
> I've only given them a very cursory glance. You also have to be running the
> very latest and greatest mysql 5.6
>
> Fred
>
> [1]
> http://www.ruempler.eu/2013/07/07/replicating-aws-rds-mysql-databases-to-external-slaves/
> On 17 Jul 2013, at 14:46, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
> >
> > I visited Amazon in April, and specifically asked about setting up a
> mysql slave outside of AWS, replicating from an RDS master. I was told it
> couldn't (then) be done, but was their single most requested feature for
> RDS.
> >
> > The July announcement looks like it's worded to *suggest* you can do
> that, without actually *saying* you can.
> >
> > My gut feeling is that, if you could do that, they and the blogosphere
> would have made a lot more noise about it.
> >
> > But, I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17 July 2013 14:43, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 17 July 2013 14:41, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 17 July 2013 14:34, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:
> > RDS also has the major (for some people) problem that you can't
> replicate into or out of it without using separate tools.
> >
> > I believe that's not longer the case, at least if I read the
> announcement[1] correctly.
> >
> > I think that just means you can set up replica slaves *within* RDS - not
> slaves/masters outside of it.
> >
> > You could always (or at least as long I remember) create replicas within
> RDS, they certainly mention "This can be useful for a variety of purposes
> such as syncing data with an on-premises deployment".
> >
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