This is another tool in the same toolkit as archiver. I just saw a great blog post on it at http://blog.arabx.com.au/?p=883. Documentation can be found at http://mysqltoolkit.sourceforge.net/doc/mysql-checksum-filter.html. This is an invaluable tool for ensuring your replicated tables are staying in sync, something that MySQL replication does not do. Tables will drift […]

The MySQL Toolkit can be found at http://mysqltoolkit.sourceforge.net/. It is coded and maintained by Baron Schwartz (www.xaprb.com). I’ve been using the archiver tool he wrote lately, and wanted to share this tool. In every web environment I’ve worked in, there is data that is collected for analysis and that grows quite rapidly. […]