https://clement.n8r.ch/en/tags/mariadb/ Recent content in Mariadb on n8r | Clément Hugo -- 0.147.7 en-US Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:34:07 +0100 https://clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/connected-farm-the-weighbridge/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:34:07 +0100 https://clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/connected-farm-the-weighbridge/ This article covers a topic related to my wife&#39;s family farm, namely the brand new weighbridge installed on the biogas plant. https://clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/backing-up-mariadb-on-kubernetes/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:12:16 +0000 https://clement.n8r.ch/en/articles/backing-up-mariadb-on-kubernetes/ <p>Hosting MariaDB on Kubernetes proved so far a quite good experience: using the <a href="https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/main/bitnami/mariadb">Bitnami Helm Chart</a> to host a &ldquo;standalone&rdquo; instance (i.e. without replication, as replication already happens on the storage layer, and because simplicity is more valuable than a complex HA setup like Galera) of MariaDB worked out quite well.</p> <p>Being cautious, I had configured a daily backup to S3, using a <a href="https://github.com/benjamin-maynard/kubernetes-cloud-mysql-backup">tool found on Github</a>, but when it came to restoring data dumped with this tool, which uses a pretty old <code>mysqldump</code> binary, I was stuck and couldn&rsquo;t restore 😅 For some reason, the default config of the tool didn&rsquo;t bother to escape quotes and other sensitive types of chars, and as a result I had to resort to restoring my daily <code>velero</code> backup of my MariaDB instance in another namespace to make a proper export from there and to finally restore my data.</p>