Paddy Sreenivasan

Biography

Paddy Sreenivasan is the Vice President of Engineering and a co-founder of Zmanda, Inc. He is responsible for technical strategy and development of leading software products for data protection. He has worked with various open source communities, including leading the development of an open source high-availability clustering solution. He is an Amanda and MySQL database open source project developer. Prior to founding Zmanda, he had key engineering roles at Cisco, SGI and HP.

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Data Protection for LAMP Applications
Publish Date: Jul. 13, 2006The most valuable part of any LAMP application is the data. Yet when this data exists in configuration files as well as databases, protection means regular and secure backups. Paddy Sreenivasan discusses strategies for backing up MySQL and PostgreSQL databases securely and effectively.

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MySQL backups using ZFS snapshot

April 11 2008

One of the significant features in version 2.0 of Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL is MySQL backups using Solaris ZFS. Doing MySQL backups using filesystem snapshots has minimal impact on the MySQL databases. The MySQL databases are not available... read more

Improved Snapshot interface for MySQL backups

April 04 2008

We have significantly improved the snapshot interface for doing MySQL backups using ZRM. This work has been released as part of ZRM 2.0. ZRM 2.0 has couple of snapshot plugins - Linux LVM and Solaris ZFS that uses the interface.... read more

Top 5 considerations while setting up your MySQL backup

August 21 2007

List of top 5 items that have to be considered before deciding on a MySQL backup implementation are: * How fast and how easy do you want the MySQL Recovery process to be? * What will be the impact of... read more

Seeking MySQL backup console feedback

June 26 2007

We are working on Zmanda Management Console for our MySQL backup product line: Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. ZRM for MySQL is an enterprise backup and recovery solution for MySQL. ... read more

MySQL Online Backup

November 08 2006

There are several methods to do live MySQL database backups. These methods are either storage engine specific (InnoDB hot backup, mysqlhotcopy), or require read locks (mysqldump), or require additional hardware (backup using replication slaves, LVM snapshot). Some of these backup methods can do backups of remote MySQL servers also. So… read more

Flexible backup windows for MySQL databases

October 18 2006

MySQL databases are integral part of Web based applications such as Wikis, Forums, Blogs and even enterprise applications such as Sugar CRM. These applications allow for minimal downtime and are expected to provide web application services 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. MySQL administrators have a… read more

Selective recovery of MySQL databases

September 22 2006

With the use of MySQL in the enterprise applications and Web 2.0 applications, Backup and recovery of MySQL databases has become one of the important tasks for a database administrator. There are lots of methods to do application consistent MySQL database backups. The backup method used depends on MySQL configuration… read more