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How to perform DR Drills using MySQL Replication (Doc ID 2528968.1)

Last updated on APRIL 20, 2021

Applies to:

MySQL Server - Version 5.6 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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Disclaimer: Starting from v8.0, some terms have been deprecated. Older releases will only use the deprecated terminology, and new releases will only use new terminology. Please see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqld-version-reference/en/ for a complete list of those changes, and in which minor versions it happened.

Disaster Recovery Drills are often performed to check the preparedness to handle disasters. 

This document discusses the DR Drills scenarios and how to handle them from MySQL replication Point of View. 

There are 4 different kind of DR scenarios that we will consider here:


a. Controlled/Maintenance:

        i. Switch-over

        ii. Switch-back


b. Failure Simulation:

        i. Failover

        ii. Fall-back
 

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