How To Install mydumper on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mydumper
mydumper is:
Mydumper (aka. MySQL Data Dumper) is a high-performance multi-threaded backup (and restore) toolset for MySQL and Drizzle. The main developers originally worked as Support Engineers at MySQL (one has moved to Facebook and another to SkySQL) and this is how they would envisage mysqldump based on years of user feedback.
Mydumper features
Lightweight C source Up to 10x faster dumps compared to mysqldump Consistent snapshots for transactional and non-transactional tables File compression on-the-fly Binary log dumps Multi-threaded restore utility Daemon mode for timed snapshots and continuous binary logs
Mydumper is still under active development but is well tested/used in production on some large installations.
There are three methods to install mydumper on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mydumper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mydumper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mydumper
Install mydumper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mydumper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mydumper
Install mydumper Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mydumper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mydumper
How To Uninstall mydumper on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mydumper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mydumper
Uninstall mydumper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mydumper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mydumper
Remove mydumper Configurations and Data
To remove mydumper configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mydumper
Remove mydumper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mydumper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mydumper
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
