Re: Online Backups Cross Platform?

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 08:57pm, Geert Vanderkelen wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> On 24 Jul 2007, at 11:48, T.A.C. wrote:
> ..
>
> > /usr/bin/ndb_restore -b 631 -m -n 3 /tmp/BACKUP-631
> > Backup Id = 631
> > Nodeid = 3
> > backup path = /tmp/BACKUP-631
> > Ndb version in backup files: Version 5.0.41
> > Unable to connect with connect string: nodeid=0,localhost:1186
> > Retrying every 5 seconds. Attempts left: 12 11 10 9 8 7
> >
> > I shutdown all the API nodes before trying this and otherwise the new
> > cluster is starting fine so I don't think it's a network
> > connectivity issue:
>
> Well, it says it can't connect to localhost:1186. Is the management
> server running on the host you are trying to run ndb_restore? If not,
> specify the connect string.
>
> But anyway, here is a bug report about endian compatibility and backups:
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27543
> which might be important for you.

He said that both the Solaris and the Linux systems were running on the same processor platform. Thus, endianess could not be an issue or even a contributing factor. If his Solaris systems were on SPARC or SPARC64, then it would have made sense to include this info.

Be that as it may, I'm kinda glad to have the reference, just so that I know more about it, too. So, thanks :) .

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