mysqlbinlog(1) MySQL Database System mysqlbinlog(1)
NAME
mysqlbinlog - utility for processing binary log files
SYNOPSIS
mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
DESCRIPTION
The server's binary log consists of files containing "events" that
describe modifications to database contents. The server writes these
files in binary format. To display their contents in text format, use
the mysqlbinlog utility. You can also use mysqlbinlog to display the
contents of relay log files written by a slave server in a replication
setup because relay logs have the same format as binary logs. The
binary log and relay log are discussed further in Section 5.2.3, "The
Binary Log", and Section 16.4.2, "Replication Relay and Status Files".
Invoke mysqlbinlog like this:
shell> mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
For example, to display the contents of the binary log file named
binlog.000003, use this command:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.0000003
The output includes events contained in binlog.000003. Event
information includes the statement, the ID of the server on which it
was executed, the timestamp when the statement was executed, how much
time it took, and so forth.
The output from mysqlbinlog can be re-executed (for example, by using
it as input to mysql) to reapply the statements in the log. This is
useful for recovery operations after a server crash. For other usage
examples, see the discussion later in this section.
Normally, you use mysqlbinlog to read binary log files directly and
apply them to the local MySQL server. It is also possible to read
binary logs from a remote server by using the --read-from-remote-server
option. When you read remote binary logs, the connection parameter
options can be given to indicate how to connect to the server. These
options are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and
--user; they are ignored except when you also use the
--read-from-remote-server option.
mysqlbinlog supports the following options. It also reads option files
and supports the options for processing them described at
Section 4.2.3.3.1, "Command-Line Options that Affect Option-File
Handling".
o --help, -?
Display a help message and exit.
o --character-sets-dir=path
The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 9.2,
"The Character Set Used for Data and Sorting".
o --database=db_name, -d db_name
List entries for just this database (local log only). You can only
specify one database with this option - if you specify multiple
--database options, only the last one is used. This option forces
mysqlbinlog to output entries from the binary log where the default
database (that is, the one selected by USE) is db_name. Note that
this does not replicate cross-database statements such as UPDATE
some_db.some_table SET foo='bar' while having selected a different
database or no database.
o --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]
Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is
'd:t:o,file_name'. The default is 'd:t:o,/tmp/mysqlbinlog.trace'.
o --disable-log-bin, -D
Disable binary logging. This is useful for avoiding an endless loop
if you use the --to-last-log option and are sending the output to
the same MySQL server. This option also is useful when restoring
after a crash to avoid duplication of the statements you have
logged.
This option requires that you have the SUPER privilege. It causes
mysqlbinlog to include a SET sql_log_bin = 0 statement in its
output to disable binary logging of the remaining output. The SET
statement is ineffective unless you have the SUPER privilege.
o --force-read, -f
With this option, if mysqlbinlog reads a binary log event that it
does not recognize, it prints a warning, ignores the event, and
continues. Without this option, mysqlbinlog stops if it reads such
an event.
o --hexdump, -H
Display a hex dump of the log in comments. This output can be
helpful for replication debugging. Hex dump format is discussed
later in this section. This option was added in MySQL 5.0.16.
o --host=host_name, -h host_name
Get the binary log from the MySQL server on the given host.
o --local-load=path, -l path
Prepare local temporary files for LOAD DATA INFILE in the specified
directory.
o --offset=N, -o N
Skip the first N entries in the log.
o --password[=password], -p[password]
The password to use when connecting to the server. If you use the
short option form (-p), you cannot have a space between the option
and the password. If you omit the password value following the
--password or -p option on the command line, you are prompted for
one.
Specifying a password on the command line should be considered
insecure. See Section 5.5.6.2, "End-User Guidelines for Password
Security".
o --port=port_num, -P port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to a remote server.
o --position=N, -j N
Deprecated. Use --start-position instead.
o --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
The connection protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is
useful when the other connection parameters normally would cause a
protocol to be used other than the one you want. For details on the
allowable values, see Section 4.2.2, "Connecting to the MySQL
Server".
o --read-from-remote-server, -R
Read the binary log from a MySQL server rather than reading a local
log file. Any connection parameter options are ignored unless this
option is given as well. These options are --host, --password,
--port, --protocol, --socket, and --user.
This option requires that the remote server be running. It works
only for binary log files on the remote server, not relay log
files.
o --result-file=name, -r name
Direct output to the given file.
o --set-charset=charset_name
Add a SET NAMES charset_name statement to the output to specify the
character set to be used for processing log files. This option was
added in MySQL 5.0.23.
o --short-form, -s
Display only the statements contained in the log, without any extra
information.
o --socket=path, -S path
For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on
Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.
o --start-datetime=datetime
Start reading the binary log at the first event having a timestamp
equal to or later than the datetime argument. The datetime value is
relative to the local time zone on the machine where you run
mysqlbinlog. The value should be in a format accepted for the
DATETIME or TIMESTAMP data types. For example:
shell> mysqlbinlog --start-datetime="2005-12-25 11:25:56" binlog.000003
This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See Section 6.3,
"Example Backup and Recovery Strategy".
o --start-position=N
Start reading the binary log at the first event having a position
equal to or greater than N. This option applies to the first log
file named on the command line.
o --stop-datetime=datetime
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a timestamp
equal to or later than the datetime argument. This option is useful
for point-in-time recovery. See the description of the
--start-datetime option for information about the datetime value.
o --stop-position=N
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a position
equal to or greater than N. This option applies to the last log
file named on the command line.
o --to-last-log, -t
Do not stop at the end of the requested binary log from a MySQL
server, but rather continue printing until the end of the last
binary log. If you send the output to the same MySQL server, this
may lead to an endless loop. This option requires
--read-from-remote-server.
o --user=user_name, -u user_name
The MySQL user name to use when connecting to a remote server.
o --version, -V
Display version information and exit.
You can also set the following variable by using --var_name=value
syntax:
o open_files_limit
Specify the number of open file descriptors to reserve.
It is also possible to set variables by using
--set-variable=var_name=value or -O var_name=value syntax. This syntax
is deprecated.
You can pipe the output of mysqlbinlog into the mysql client to execute
the statements contained in the binary log. This is used to recover
from a crash when you have an old backup (see Section 6.2, "Database
Backup Methods"). For example:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql
Or:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.[0-9]* | mysql
You can also redirect the output of mysqlbinlog to a text file instead,
if you need to modify the statement log first (for example, to remove
statements that you do not want to execute for some reason). After
editing the file, execute the statements that it contains by using it
as input to the mysql program.
mysqlbinlog has the --start-position option, which prints only those
statements with an offset in the binary log greater than or equal to a
given position (the given position must match the start of one event).
It also has options to stop and start when it sees an event with a
given date and time. This enables you to perform point-in-time recovery
using the --stop-datetime option (to be able to say, for example, "roll
forward my databases to how they were today at 10:30 a.m.").
If you have more than one binary log to execute on the MySQL server,
the safe method is to process them all using a single connection to the
server. Here is an example that demonstrates what may be unsafe:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql # DANGER!!
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 | mysql # DANGER!!
Processing binary logs this way using different connections to the
server causes problems if the first log file contains a CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLE statement and the second log contains a statement that
uses the temporary table. When the first mysql process terminates, the
server drops the temporary table. When the second mysql process
attempts to use the table, the server reports "unknown table."
To avoid problems like this, use a single connection to execute the
contents of all binary logs that you want to process. Here is one way
to do so:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 binlog.000002 | mysql
Another approach is to write all the logs to a single file and then
process the file:
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 > /tmp/statements.sql
shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 >> /tmp/statements.sql
shell> mysql -e "source /tmp/statements.sql"
mysqlbinlog can produce output that reproduces a LOAD DATA INFILE
operation without the original data file. mysqlbinlog copies the data
to a temporary file and writes a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement that
refers to the file. The default location of the directory where these
files are written is system-specific. To specify a directory
explicitly, use the --local-load option.
Because mysqlbinlog converts LOAD DATA INFILE statements to LOAD DATA
LOCAL INFILE statements (that is, it adds LOCAL), both the client and
the server that you use to process the statements must be configured to
allow LOCAL capability. See Section 5.3.4, "Security Issues with LOAD
DATA LOCAL".
Warning
The temporary files created for LOAD DATA LOCAL statements are not
automatically deleted because they are needed until you actually
execute those statements. You should delete the temporary files
yourself after you no longer need the statement log. The files can
be found in the temporary file directory and have names like
original_file_name-#-#.
The --hexdump option produces a hex dump of the log contents:
shell> mysqlbinlog --hexdump master-bin.000001
The hex output consists of comment lines beginning with #, so the
output might look like this for the preceding command:
/*!40019 SET @@session.max_insert_delayed_threads=0*/;
/*!50003 SET @OLD_COMPLETION_TYPE=@@COMPLETION_TYPE,COMPLETION_TYPE=0*/;
# at 4
#051024 17:24:13 server id 1 end_log_pos 98
# Position Timestamp Type Master ID Size Master Pos Flags
# 00000004 9d fc 5c 43 0f 01 00 00 00 5e 00 00 00 62 00 00 00 00 00
# 00000017 04 00 35 2e 30 2e 31 35 2d 64 65 62 75 67 2d 6c |..5.0.15.debug.l|
# 00000027 6f 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |og..............|
# 00000037 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
# 00000047 00 00 00 00 9d fc 5c 43 13 38 0d 00 08 00 12 00 |.......C.8......|
# 00000057 04 04 04 04 12 00 00 4b 00 04 1a |.......K...|
# Start: binlog v 4, server v 5.0.15-debug-log created 051024 17:24:13
# at startup
ROLLBACK;
Hex dump output currently contains the following elements. This format
is subject to change.
o Position: The byte position within the log file.
o Timestamp: The event timestamp. In the example shown, '9d fc 5c 43'
is the representation of '051024 17:24:13' in hexadecimal.
o Type: The event type code. In the example shown, '0f' indicates a
FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT. The following table lists the possible
type codes.
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|Type | Name | Meaning |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|00 | UNKNOWN_EVENT | This event should |
| | | never be present in |
| | | the log. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|01 | START_EVENT_V3 | This indicates the |
| | | start of a log file |
| | | written by MySQL 4 |
| | | or earlier. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|02 | QUERY_EVENT | The most common |
| | | type of events. |
| | | These contain |
| | | statements executed |
| | | on the |
| | | master. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|03 | STOP_EVENT | Indicates that master has |
| | | stopped. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|04 | ROTATE_EVENT | Written when the master |
| | | switches to a new log file. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|05 | INTVAR_EVENT | Used for AUTO_INCREMENT |
| | | values or when the |
| | | LAST_INSERT_ID() |
| | | function |
| | | is used in the statement. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|06 | LOAD_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE in MySQL |
| | | 3.23. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|07 | SLAVE_EVENT | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|08 | CREATE_FILE_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statements. This indicates the |
| | | start of |
| | | execution of such a statement. A |
| | | temporary |
| | | file is created |
| | | on the slave. Used in MySQL 4 only. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|09 | APPEND_BLOCK_EVENT | Contains data for use in a |
| | | LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statement. The data is stored in |
| | | the temporary |
| | | file on the slave. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0a | EXEC_LOAD_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statements. The contents of the |
| | | temporary file |
| | | is stored in the table on the slave. |
| | | Used in MySQL 4 |
| | | only. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0b | DELETE_FILE_EVENT | Rollback of a LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statement. The temporary file |
| | | should be |
| | | deleted on the slave. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0c | NEW_LOAD_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE in MySQL |
| | | 4 and earlier. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0d | RAND_EVENT | Used to send information about |
| | | random values if the |
| | | RAND() function |
| | | is |
| | | used in the |
| | | statement. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0e | USER_VAR_EVENT | Used to replicate user variables. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|0f | FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT | This indicates the start of a log |
| | | file written by MySQL 5 or later. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|10 | XID_EVENT | Event indicating commit of an XA |
| | | transaction. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|11 | BEGIN_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statements in MySQL 5 and later. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|12 | EXECUTE_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT | Used for LOAD DATA |
| | | INFILE |
| | | statements in MySQL 5 and later. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|13 | TABLE_MAP_EVENT | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|14 | WRITE_ROWS_EVENT | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|15 | UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
|16 | DELETE_ROWS_EVENT | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+--------------------------+--------------------------------------+
o Master ID: The server ID of the master that created the event.
o Size: The size in bytes of the event.
o Master Pos: The position of the next event in the original master
log file.
o Flags: 16 flags. Currently, the following flags are used. The
others are reserved for future use.
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|Flag | Name | Meaning |
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|01 | LOG_EVENT_BINLOG_IN_USE_F | Log file correctly |
| | | closed. (Used only |
| | | in |
| | | FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT.) |
| | | If |
| | | this |
| | | flag is set (if the |
| | | flags are, for |
| | | example, |
| | | '01 |
| | | 00') in a |
| | | FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT, |
| | | the log |
| | | file |
| | | has not been |
| | | properly closed. |
| | | Most probably |
| | | this |
| | | is because of a |
| | | master crash (for |
| | | example, due |
| | | to |
| | | power failure). |
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|02 | | Reserved for future use. |
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|04 | LOG_EVENT_THREAD_SPECIFIC_F | Set if the event is dependent on the |
| | | connection it was executed in (for |
| | | example, '04 00'), for |
| | | example, |
| | | if the event uses |
| | | temporary tables. |
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|08 | LOG_EVENT_SUPPRESS_USE_F | Set in some circumstances when the event is |
| | | not dependent on the default |
| | | database. |
+-----+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).
MySQL 5.0 11/09/2009 mysqlbinlog(1)
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