Percona/XtraDB insllation + replication setup - tips/guides for Centos 5.2

Question

I am looking for good articles on how to install and setup Percona's patched server with XtraDB and master/slave replication setup on Centos 5.2 64 bit.

I believe they can be downloaded at http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.1.34-5/RPM/rhel5/? and is there any good recipes for setting up HA and replication?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The RPMs are best installed by just downloading them into a directory and typing "rpm -i *.rpm". For help with this, I recommend Percona's forums or mailing lists - forum.percona.com and groups.google.com/group/percona-dev.

For replication there's not anything really new in the Percona patches. You are best off just looking at the guide in the MySQL manual:

dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-howto.html

For HA recipes, you've basically got the choice of MySQL and/or DRBD. I wrote an article on Percona's mysql performance blog here:

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/07/07/is-drbd-the-right-choice-for-me/

Hope this helps!