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Getting Started with MariaDB
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Getting Started with MariaDB

by Daniel Bartholomew
June 2015
Beginner
140 pages
3h
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8. Maintaining MariaDB

Similar to houses and cars, databases need to be maintained if they are to run smoothly. In this chapter, we'll cover the following maintenance-related topics:

  • MariaDB log files
  • Optimizing and tuning MariaDB
  • Backing up, importing, and restoring data
  • Repairing MariaDB

MariaDB log files

Depending on how we configure it, MariaDB will keep very detailed or very sparse logs. The location of these logs is configured in our my.cnf (my.ini on Windows) MariaDB configuration file. On Linux, the default location is /var/log/mysql/ and on Windows, the default location is in the MariaDB data directory.

There are several different kinds of logs, each kind serving a different purpose.

The binary log

The MariaDB binary log is a series of ...

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