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Lets look at some files which are useful for daily usage of MySQL Cluster:
/usr/local/mysql/
bin/mysql MySQL command-line client tool
bin/mysqld MySQL server
Use the mysqld_safe to start the MySQL server. To see all
the options available use:
shell> mysqld --help --verbose | less
bin/mysqldump Schema and data backup
For MySQL Cluster you’ll need this to backup schema,
stored procedures, etc.. For data you want to use
ndb_restore.
bin/mysqld_safe MySQL server startup script
Use this to start the MySQL server.
bin/ndbd Data Node daemon
bin/ndbmtd Data Node daemon, multi-threaded
bin/ndb_mgm MySQL Cluster management client tool
bin/ndb_mgmd Management Node daemon
bin/ndb_restore Restore MySQL Cluster backup
You can use the --help option for the above application to show their options.
Locations
After the installation of MySQL Cluster we need to define where the data is going to be
stored. For this tutorial we’ll use some subdirectories in /opt/mysqlcluster/.
/opt/mysqlcluster
/ndb Data directory for MySQL Cluster
/ndb_Slave Data Directory for Slave MySQL Cluster
/mysql_A Data directory for first MySQL server (mysqld)
/mysql_B Data directory for second MySQL server (mysqld)
my_A.cnf Option files for first MySQL server
my_B.cnf Option file for second MySQL server
config.ini Configuration file for MySQL Cluster
/mysql_Slave Data directory for Slave MySQL Cluster
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