mysqlbinlog --处理二进制更新日志的工具
时间:2006-01-19 来源:windychan
mysqlbinlog:Utility for Processing Binary Log Files
The binary log files that the server generates are written in binary format. To examine these files in text format, use the mysqlbinlog utility.
Invoke mysqlbinlog like this:
shell> mysqlbinlog [options] log-file ...
For example, to display the contents of the binary log binlog.000003, use this command:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.0000003
The output includes all statements contained in binlog.000003, together with other information such as the time each statement took, the thread ID of the client that issued it, the timestamp when it was issued, and so forth.
Normally, you use mysqlbinlog to read binary log files directly and apply them to the local MySQL server. It is also possible to read binary logs from a remote server by using the --read-from-remote-server option.
When you read remote binary logs, the connection parameter options can be given to indicate how to connect to the server, but they are ignored unless you also specify the --read-from-remote-server option. These options are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and --user.
You can also use mysqlbinlog to read relay log files written by a slave server in a replication setup. Relay logs have the same format as binary log files.
The binary log is discussed further in Section 5.11.3, “The Binary Log”.
mysqlbinlog supports the following options:
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--help, -?
Display a help message and exit.
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--database=db_name, -d db_name
List entries for just this database (local log only).
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--force-read, -f
With this option, if mysqlbinlog reads a binary log event that it does not recognize, it prints a warning, ignores the event, and continues. Without this option, mysqlbinlog stops if it reads such an event.
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--hexdump, -H
Display a hex dump of the log in comments. This output can be helpful for replication debugging. This option was added in MySQL 5.0.16.
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--host=host_name, -h host_name
Get the binary log from the MySQL server on the given host.
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--local-load=path, -l path
Prepare local temporary files for LOAD DATA INFILE in the specified directory.
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--offset=N, -o N
Skip the first N entries.
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--password[=password], -p[password]
The password to use when connecting to the server. If you use the short option form (-p), you cannot have a space between the option and the password. If you omit the password value following the --password or -p option on the command line, you are prompted for one.
Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. See Section 5.8.6, “Keeping Your Password Secure”.
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--port=port_num, -P port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to a remote server.
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--position=N, -j N
Deprecated, use --start-position instead.
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--protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
The connection protocol to use.
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--read-from-remote-server, -R
Read the binary log from a MySQL server. Any connection parameter options are ignored unless this option is given as well. These options are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and --user.
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--result-file=name, -r name
Direct output to the given file.
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--short-form, -s
Display only the statements contained in the log, without any extra information.
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--socket=path, -S path
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.
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--start-datetime=datetime
Start reading the binary log at the first event having a datetime equal to or later than the datetime argument. The datetime value is relative to the local time zone on the machine where you run mysqlbinlog. The value should be in a format accepted for the DATETIME or TIMESTAMP data types. For example:
shell> mysqlbinlog --start-datetime="2004-12-25 11:25:56" binlog.000003
This option is useful for point-in-time recovery.
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--stop-datetime=datetime
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a datetime equal or posterior to the datetime argument. See the description of the --start-datetime option for information about the datetime value. It is useful for point-in-time recovery.
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--start-position=N
Start reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal to the N argument.
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--stop-position=N
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal or greater than the N argument.
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--to-last-log, -t
Do not stop at the end of the requested binary log of the MySQL server, but rather continue printing until the end of the last binary log. If you send the output to the same MySQL server, this may lead to an endless loop. This option requires --read-from-remote-server.
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--disable-log-bin, -D
Disable binary logging. This is useful for avoiding an endless loop if you use the --to-last-log option and are sending the output to the same MySQL server. This option also is useful when restoring after a crash to avoid duplication of the statements you have logged. Note: This option requires that you have the SUPER privilege.
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--user=user_name, -u user_name
The MySQL username to use when connecting to a remote server.
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--version, -V
Display version information and exit.
You can also set the following variable by using --var_name=value syntax:
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open_files_limit
Specify the number of open file descriptors to reserve.
It is also possible to set variables by using --set-variable=var_name=value or -O var_name=value syntax. This syntax is deprecated.
You can pipe the output of mysqlbinlog into a mysql client to execute the statements contained in the binary log. This is used to recover from a crash when you have an old backup (see Section 5.9.1, “Database Backups”):
shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000001 | mysql
Or:
shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.[0-9]* | mysql
You can also redirect the output of mysqlbinlog to a text file instead, if you need to modify the statement log first (for example, to remove statements that you do not want to execute for some reason). After editing the file, execute the statements that it contains by using it as input to the mysql program.
mysqlbinlog has the --position option, which prints only those statements with an offset in the binary log greater than or equal to a given position (the given position must match the start of one event). It also has options to stop or start when it sees an event of a given date and time. This enables you to perform point-in-time recovery using the --stop-datetime option (to be able to say, for example, “roll forward my databases to how they were today at 10:30 AM”).
If you have more than one binary log to execute on the MySQL server, the safe method is to process them all using a single connection to the server. Here is an example that demonstrates what may be unsafe:
shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000001 | mysql # DANGER!! shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000002 | mysql # DANGER!!
Processing binary logs this way using different connections to the server causes problems if the first log file contains a CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement and the second log contains a statement that uses the temporary table. When the first mysql process terminates, the server drops the temporary table. When the second mysql process attempts to use the table, the server reports “unknown table.”
To avoid problems like this, use a single connection to execute the contents of all binary logs that you want to process. Here is one way to do this:
shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000001 hostname-bin.000002 | mysql
Another approach is to do this:
shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000001 > /tmp/statements.sql shell> mysqlbinlog hostname-bin.000002 >> /tmp/statements.sql shell> mysql -e "source /tmp/statements.sql"
mysqlbinlog can produce output that reproduces a LOAD DATA INFILE operation without the original data file. mysqlbinlog copies the data to a temporary file and writes a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement that refers to the file. The default location of the directory where these files are written is system-specific. To specify a directory explicitly, use the --local-load option.
Because mysqlbinlog converts LOAD DATA INFILE statements to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statements (that is, it adds LOCAL), both the client and the server that you use to process the statements must be configured to allow LOCAL capability. See Section 5.6.4, “Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL”.
Warning: The temporary files created for LOAD DATA LOCAL statements are not
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关于mysql目录下个文件的作用,这里有一个比较简单的介绍,摘录部分如下:
SHOW BINLOG EVENTS \G
你还可以从命令行输入下面的内容:
mysql --user=root -pmy_pwd -e 'SHOW BINLOG EVENTS \G' |
将密码my_pwd替换为服务器的root密码。
1. 指定恢复时间
对于MySQL 4.1.4,可以在mysqlbinlog语句中通过--start-date和--stop-date选项指定DATETIME格式的起止时间。举例说明,假设在今天上午10:00(今天是2005年4月20日),执行SQL语句来删除一个大表。要想恢复表和数据,你可以恢复前晚上的备份,并输入:
mysqlbinlog --stop-date="2005-04-20 9:59:59" /var/log/mysql/bin.123456 \ | mysql -u root -pmypwd |
该命令将恢复截止到在--stop-date选项中以DATETIME格式给出的日期和时间的所有数据。如果你没有检测到几个小时后输入的错误的SQL语句,可能你想要恢复后面发生的活动。根据这些,你可以用起使日期和时间再次运行mysqlbinlog:
mysqlbinlog --start-date="2005-04-20 10:01:00" /var/log/mysql/bin.123456 \ | mysql -u root -pmypwd \ |
在该行中,从上午10:01登录的SQL语句将运行。组合执行前夜的转储文件和mysqlbinlog的两行可以将所有数据恢复到上午10:00前一秒钟。你应检查日志以确保时间确切。下一节介绍如何实现。
2. 指定恢复位置
也可以不指定日期和时间,而使用mysqlbinlog的选项--start-position和--stop-position来指定日志位置。它们的作用与起止日选项相同,不同的是给出了从日志起的位置号。使用日志位置是更准确的恢复方法,特别是当由于破坏性SQL语句同时发生许多事务的时候。要想确定位置号,可以运行mysqlbinlog寻找执行了不期望的事务的时间范围,但应将结果重新指向文本文件以便进行检查。操作方法为:
mysqlbinlog --start-date="2005-04-20 9:55:00" --stop-date="2005-04-20 10:05:00" \ /var/log/mysql/bin.123456 > /tmp/mysql_restore.sql |
该命令将在/tmp目录创建小的文本文件,将显示执行了错误的SQL语句时的SQL语句。你可以用文本编辑器打开该文件,寻找你不要想重复的语句。如果二进制日志中的位置号用于停止和继续恢复操作,应进行注释。用log_pos加一个数字来标记位置。使用位置号恢复了以前的备份文件后,你应从命令行输入下面内容:
mysqlbinlog --stop-position="368312" /var/log/mysql/bin.123456 \ | mysql -u root -pmypwd mysqlbinlog --start-position="368315" /var/log/mysql/bin.123456 \ | mysql -u root -pmypwd \ |
上面的第1行将恢复到停止位置为止的所有事务。下一行将恢复从给定的起始位置直到二进制日志结束的所有事务。因为mysqlbinlog的输出包括每个SQL语句记录之前的SET TIMESTAMP语句,恢复的数据和相关MySQL日志将反应事务执行的原时间。