How To Install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7. holland-mysqllvm is Holland LVM snapshot backup plugin for MySQL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7.

What is holland-mysqllvm

This plugin allows holland to perform LVM snapshot backups of a MySQL database and to generate a tar archive of the raw data directory.

We can use yum or dnf to install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install holland-mysqllvm.

Install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install holland-mysqllvm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install holland-mysqllvm

Install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install holland-mysqllvm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install holland-mysqllvm

How To Uninstall holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the holland-mysqllvm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove holland-mysqllvm

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install holland-mysqllvm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.