MySQL has several features that can help you protect your system from extinction, whether it runs on hardware, virtual machine, or in clouds. Written by the engineers who designed many tools included in it, this book reveals undocumented or hard to find aspects of MySQL reliability and high availability - knowledge that is important for every organization uses a database system?. Explore the binary log, a file for replication help in disaster recovery Get tips and techniques to improve response time and handling of large data sets Monitor database activity and performance, and system main operating parameters Keep track of what to do masters and slaves, and handle failures and restart, corruption, and other incidents Automate major task with the code of an open source library written by writers Learn techniques for using MySQL in a virtual environment, such as Amazon Web Services use MySQL Cluster for achieving high availability "MySQL replication is widely used but has never been adequately explained.