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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting PaaS assets
  4. Installing the native client utilities
  5. Installing the MySQL client utility
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Installing the MySQL client utility

You need to install this utility to protect the following databases:

  • Azure MySQL

  • Azure MariaDB

  • AWS MySQL

  • AWS MariaDB

  • AWS Aurora MySQL

  • GCP MySQL

The utility version must be the same or higher than the server version.

  • For server version 8.0, the recommended version of the MySQL client utility is 8.0.42.

  • For server version 8.4, the recommended version of the MySQL client utility is 8.4.4.

RPM download locations:

Server version 8.4

https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/get/p/23/file/mysql-community-client-8.4.4-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

Server version 8.0

https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/get/p/23/file/mysql-community-client-8.0.42-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

To install, do the following in the terminal:

  1. Navigate to /usr/openv/dbpaas. If the dbpaas folder does not exist, run the command mkdir dbpaas to create the folder.
  2. Create the mysql folder inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas folder. Run the command mkdir mysql inside /usr/openv/dbpaas.
    • For server version 8.0, create the folder 80 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql folder. Run the command mkdir 80 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql folder.

    • For server version 8.4, create the 84 folder inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql folder. Run the command mkdir 84 inside the /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql folder.

  3. Download the utilities as follows:
    • For server version 8.0, go to the 80 folder, and run the command:

      wget https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/get /p/23/file/mysql-community-client-8.0.42-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

    • For server version 8.4, go to the 84 folder, and run the command:

      wget https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/get /p/23/file/mysql-community-client-8.4.4-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

  4. To install, run the command:

    For version 8.0:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql/80/mysql-community-client-8.0.42-1.el9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=2 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql/80 'usr/bin/mysql' 'usr/bin/mysqldump' 'usr/bin/mysqlbinlog'

    For version 8.4:

    rpm2cpio /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql/84/mysql-community-client-8.4.4-1.el9.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -xv --strip-components=2 -f - -C /usr/openv/dbpaas/mysql/84 'usr/bin/mysql' 'usr/bin/mysqldump' 'usr/bin/mysqlbinlog'

Note:

Avoid using MySQL client utility 8.0.32 version as there is a bug reported by MySQL.

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