Hi, On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Huck <dhuckaby@hvja.org> wrote:
honestly having no clue what they do/did were used for... I assumed(yes we know what that means :) that these were sort of temp/log files of what mysql-bin was doing ...so in essence recording every single transaction or something... and the one with the highest number kept incrementing...and would get to it's size limit it seems every 5 min...
These are in fact DB log files that MySQL uses to record all transactions, and are meant to be used for backup and recovery. Collectively they're called the MySQL binary log. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/binary-log.html for the full details.
so right now I'm monitoring and deleting each of the ones below the highest numbered(in filename)...attempting to stave-off the 'out of disk space' which was causing this process to 'hang' on Friday.
The canonical way to delete them is to do a 'reset master' from the mysql prompt. You can also change settings in my.cnf such as log_bin and binlog_ignore_db to turn off these logs while you do the MARC imports. Note that turning off the binary log on a production server should not be done lightly, as it is an important mechanism to use for database recovery. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha Application Developer LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709