Ubuntu 26.04

MariaDB 11.8 : Replication2026/05/28

 

Configure MariaDB Replication. This is the general Primary/Replica setting.

[1]

On all Hosts, Install and Start MariaDB Server, refer to here.

[2] Change settings and create a user for replication on MariaDB Primary Host.
root@www:~#
vi /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf
# line 27 : change to IP of this host
bind-address            = 10.0.0.31

# line 73 : uncomment and change to any another ID
server-id               = 101

# line 74 : uncomment
log_bin                 = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log

# line 77 : add
binlog-format = row
gtid_domain_id = 1

root@www:~#
systemctl restart mariadb
root@www:~#
mariadb

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# create user (set any password for [password] section)
MariaDB [(none)]> grant replication slave on *.* to replica@'%' identified by 'password'; 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye
[3] Change settings on Replica Host.
root@node01:~#
vi /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf
# line 27 : change to IP of this host
bind-address            = 10.0.0.51

# line 73 : uncomment and change to another ID (different one from Primary Host)
server-id               = 102

# line 74 : uncomment
log_bin                 = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log

# line 77 : add
binlog-format = row
gtid_domain_id = 1
# specify this hostname
report-host=node01.srv.world

root@node01:~#
systemctl restart mariadb
[4] Get Dump-Data on Primary Primary Host.
After getting Data, transfer it to Replica Hosts with [sftp] or [rsync] and so on.
# create a directory and get Backup Data

root@www:~#
mkdir /home/mariadb_backup

root@www:~#
mariabackup --backup --target-dir /home/mariadb_backup -u root

.....
.....
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 Backup created in directory '/home/mariadb_backup/'
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 MySQL binlog position: filename 'mysql-bin.000001', position '519', GTID of the last change '1-1-1'
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 Writing backup-my.cnf
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58         ...done
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 Writing mariadb_backup_info
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58         ...done
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 Redo log (from LSN 45600 to 45616) was copied.
[00] 2026-05-28 00:43:58 completed OK!

# confirm GTID (Global Transaction ID)

root@www:~#
mariadb -e 'select @@gtid_binlog_pos;'

+-------------------+
| @@gtid_binlog_pos |
+-------------------+
| 1-1-1             |
+-------------------+
[5] On Replica Host, Copy back Backup Data of Primary Host and Configure replication settings.
After starting replication, verify replication works normally to create test database or insert test data and so on.
# stop MariaDB and remove existing data

root@node01:~#
systemctl stop mariadb

root@node01:~#
rm -rf /var/lib/mariadb/*
# transferred backup data

root@node01:~#
ll mariadb_backup.tar.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 744738 May 28 00:46 mariadb_backup.tar.gz
root@node01:~#
tar zxvf mariadb_backup.tar.gz

# run prepare task before restore task (OK if [completed OK])

root@node01:~#
mariabackup --prepare --target-dir /root/mariadb_backup

.....
.....
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using AVX512 instructions
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using io_uring
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: innodb_buffer_pool_size_max=96m, innodb_buffer_pool_size=96m
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffered log writes (block size=512 bytes)
2026-05-28  0:47:18 0 [Note] InnoDB: End of log at LSN=45616
[00] 2026-05-28 00:47:18 Last binlog file , position 0
recovered pages: 0% 76% 100% (0.0 seconds); tables to flush: 1 0 (0.1 seconds);
[00] 2026-05-28 00:47:18 completed OK!

# run restore

root@node01:~#
mariabackup --copy-back --target-dir /root/mariadb_backup

.....
.....
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36         ...done
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36 Copying ./sys/io_global_by_file_by_bytes.frm to /var/lib/mariadb/sys/io_global_by_file_by_bytes.frm
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36         ...done
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36 Copying ./sys/x@0024innodb_buffer_stats_by_table.frm to /var/lib/mariadb/sys/x@0024innodb_buffer_stats_by_table.frm
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36         ...done
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36 Copying ./performance_schema/db.opt to /var/lib/mariadb/performance_schema/db.opt
[01] 2026-05-28 00:47:36         ...done
[00] 2026-05-28 00:47:36 completed OK!

root@node01:~#
chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mariadb

root@node01:~#
systemctl start mariadb

# set replication

root@node01:~#
mariadb

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# gtid_slave_pos = GTID you confirmed on primary host
# master_host = Primary Host IP address
# master_user = replication user ID
# master_password = replication user ID password

MariaDB [(none)]> set global gtid_slave_pos = "1-1-1"; 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.012 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> change master to 
master_host='10.0.0.31',
master_user='replica',
master_password='password',
master_use_gtid=slave_pos;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.032 sec)

# start replication
MariaDB [(none)]> start slave; 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

# show status
MariaDB [(none)]> show slave status\G 
*************************** 1. row ***************************
                Slave_IO_State: Waiting for master to send event
                   Master_Host: 10.0.0.31
                   Master_User: replica
                   Master_Port: 3306
                 Connect_Retry: 60
               Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000001
           Read_Master_Log_Pos: 519
                Relay_Log_File: mysqld-relay-bin.000002
                 Relay_Log_Pos: 641
         Relay_Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000001
              Slave_IO_Running: Yes
             Slave_SQL_Running: Yes
               Replicate_Do_DB:
           Replicate_Ignore_DB:
            Replicate_Do_Table:
        Replicate_Ignore_Table:
       Replicate_Wild_Do_Table:
   Replicate_Wild_Ignore_Table:
                    Last_Errno: 0
                    Last_Error:
                  Skip_Counter: 0
           Exec_Master_Log_Pos: 519
               Relay_Log_Space: 951
               Until_Condition: None
                Until_Log_File:
                 Until_Log_Pos: 0
            Master_SSL_Allowed: Yes
            Master_SSL_CA_File:
            Master_SSL_CA_Path:
               Master_SSL_Cert:
             Master_SSL_Cipher:
                Master_SSL_Key:
         Seconds_Behind_Master: 0
 Master_SSL_Verify_Server_Cert: Yes
                 Last_IO_Errno: 0
                 Last_IO_Error:
                Last_SQL_Errno: 0
                Last_SQL_Error:
   Replicate_Ignore_Server_Ids:
              Master_Server_Id: 1
                Master_SSL_Crl:
            Master_SSL_Crlpath:
                    Using_Gtid: Slave_Pos
                   Gtid_IO_Pos: 1-1-1
       Replicate_Do_Domain_Ids:
   Replicate_Ignore_Domain_Ids:
                 Parallel_Mode: optimistic
                     SQL_Delay: 0
           SQL_Remaining_Delay: NULL
       Slave_SQL_Running_State: Slave has read all relay log; waiting for more updates
              Slave_DDL_Groups: 0
Slave_Non_Transactional_Groups: 0
    Slave_Transactional_Groups: 0
          Replicate_Rewrite_DB:
1 row in set (0.001 sec)
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