niroshan.l's questions

This aspect of using Percona Xtrabackup over Native Replication has been in my head for sometime now and I just cant seem to find an answer to this, I am posting this as a last resort seeking advice from you experts.

I went through the process of implementing the slave server using innobackupex and its working all good. But for what I can see this can only be used at the initial stage in bringing up the slave instance up to speed. After that native MySQL replication takes over from there on, thus bringing its drawbacks of exerting an extra amount of load on the master.

So is innobackupex just used for the initial snapshot and restoration of the slave? If this is the case what advantage would xtrabackup have over Native Mysql Replication?

Thanks in Advance

We have 2 Dell 6248P switches which are stacked, Its all working fine, But the strange thing is that The stacking modules are not cross connected they are connected to the ports inline to each other

Port 1 (Switch 1) --> Port 1( Switch 2) Port 2 (Switch 1) --> Port 2 (Switch 2)

Whereas it should be

Port 1 (Switch 1) --> Port 2 (Switch 2) , When i did this the whole network went down. None of the switches were accessible. The rest of the configuration was the exact same as defined on the configuration manual

Any thoughts on this ?

This is the first time I am doing this sort of configuration on a windows Env. Hailing from a strong linux background , I just wanted to check on what the expected outcome was.

Its a network of about 20 PC's which had 1 Domain Controller (Server 1), A hard drive crash and a recovery kept it half dead and most of the Snap-ins did now work. I configured a new DC on a different machnine (Server 2) and promoted it as a domain controller. So now there are 2 Domain controllers but all the FSMO's are still on Server 1. However due to the instability of Server 1 I am not sure whether the replication completed successfully. ( Note:- most of the users in ADUS are not in SBS console when checked on Server 2) .

My question would be, If i am to physically pull out the Network cable of Server 1 Who has all the current FSMO's would Server 2 automatically be promoted to these FSMO's

I checked for several days on the internet to find a similar scenario, All the topics were about demoting server1, but i would like to have a fallback plan where I can plug the cable back in and remove server 2 from the network

Thanks in advance

We are working on migrating from gitolite to gitlab , But have encountered a problem with subgroups which are created on git. It looks like there is no feature in gitlab to create a subgroup

eg: in Git

group1/group2/project1.git
group1/project2.git
group1/group2/project3.git
group1/group3/project4.git

It looks like when i import the repo's using bundle it is not able to identify the sub groups. Also there is no option to create a sub group on the gitlab UI. (Maybe i'm not looking at the proper terminology. maybe subgroub is not the correct work )

Apologies for the use of incorrect terms as I am new to this

Thanks in advance Regards Niro