Using ZFS Snapshots With Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS

The objective of this paper is to show how to deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS and how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using the ZFS file system. In particular this paper demonstrates how ZRM takes advantage of ZFS snapshot technology to offer a best-in-class open source data-protection solution for MySQL.