MYSQLBINLOG(1) MySQL Database System MYSQLBINLOG(1)
NAME
mysqlbinlog - utility for processing binary log files
SYNOPSIS
mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
DESCRIPTION
The binary log files that the server generates are written in binary format. To examine these files
in text format, use the mysqlbinlog utility. You can also use mysqlbinlog to read relay log files
written by a slave server in a replication setup. Relay logs have the same format as binary log
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 all events contained in binlog.000003. Event information includes the statement
executed, the time the statement took, the thread ID of the client that issued it, the timestamp when
it was executed, 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.
Binary logs and relay logs are discussed further in Section 9.3, "The Binary Log", and Section 3.5,
"Replication Relay and Status Files".
mysqlbinlog supports the following options:
--help, -?
Display a help message and exit.
--character-sets-dir=path
The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 8.1, "The Character Set Used for
Data and Sorting".
--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.
--debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]
Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is often 'd:t:o,file_name'.
--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.
--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.
--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.
--host=host_name, -h host_name
Get the binary log from the MySQL server on the given host.
--local-load=path, -l path
Prepare local temporary files for LOAD DATA INFILE in the specified directory.
--offset=N, -o N
Skip the first N entries in the log.
--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 6.6, "Keeping
Your Password Secure".
--port=port_num, -P port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to a remote server.
--position=N, -j N
Deprecated. Use --start-position instead.
--protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
The connection protocol to use.
--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.
--result-file=name, -r name
Direct output to the given file.
--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.
--short-form, -s
Display only the statements contained in the log, without any extra information.
--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.
--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 7.2, "Example Backup and Recovery
Strategy".
--stop-datetime=datetime
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a timestamp equal or posterior to 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.
--start-position=N
Start reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal to the N argument. This
option applies to the first log file named on the command line.
--stop-position=N
Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal or greater than the N
argument. This option applies to the last log file named on the command line.
--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.
--user=user_name, -u user_name
The MySQL username to use when connecting to a remote server.
--version, -V
Display version information and exit.
You can also set the following variable by using --var_name=value syntax:
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 7.1,
"Database Backups"). 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 4.4, "Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL".
MySQL Enterprise. For expert advice on the security implications of enabling LOCAL, subscribe to the
MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Service. For more information see
http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html
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 in comments:
shell> mysqlbinlog --hexdump master-bin.000001
With the preceding command, the output might look like this:
/*!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 might change in the future.
Position: The byte position within the log file.
Timestamp: The event timestamp. In the example shown, '9d fc 5c 43' is the representation of
'051024 17:24:13' in hexadecimal.
Type: The type of the log event. In the example shown, '0f' means that the example event is a
FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT. The following table lists the possible types.
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|Type | Name | Meaning |
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|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 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. |
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|00 | UNKNOWN_EVENT | This event should never be |
| | | present in the log. |
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|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. |
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|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 mainly for AUTO_INCREMENT |
| | | values and 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. |
+-----+--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
Master ID: The server id of the master that created the event.
Size: The size in bytes of the event.
Master Pos: The position of the event in the original master log file.
Flags: 16 flags. Currently, the following flags are used. The others are reserved for the future.
+-----+-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
|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. |
+-----+-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
The other flags are reserved for future use.
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