This post is one part of a series discussing the OpenStack Nova Juno mid-cycle meetup. It’s a bit shorter than most of the others, because the next thing on my list to talk about is DB2, and that’s relatively contained. IBM is interested in adding DB2 support as a SQL database for Nova. Theoretically, this…
Tag: database
Exploring a single database migration
Yesterday I was having some troubles with a database migration download step, and a Joshua Hesketh suggested I step through the migrations one at a time and see what they were doing to my sqlite test database. That’s a great idea, but it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to do it. Now that I’ve…
Nova database continuous integration
I’ve had some opportunity recently to spend a little quality time off line, and I spent some of that time working on a side project I’ve wanted to do for a while — continuous integration testing of nova database migrations. Now, the code isn’t perfect at the moment, but I think its an interesting direction…
MythBuntu 8.10 just made me sad
I figured it was time to give MythBuntu a try, so I set up a MythBuntu 8.10 instance in VirtualBox today. That was a mistake. I’m not 100% sure I understand how it happened, but MythBuntu somehow managed to delete my entire mythconverg MySQL database instance. Not pleased. I’ve restored it from last night’s backup,…
Recovering lost MythTV recordings
I had one of those moments tonight, and accidentally dropped the mythconverg database on my production MythTV instance, not the development one. This made me sad. Luckily I had a backup which was only a week old (although I am now running night backups of that database). Recovery wasn’t too bad once I wrote some…