How to recover from failed Mysql schema update, with replication?

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Published on 2010-04-12T15:18:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 1:13 UTC
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I have two MySQL servers configured with master-slave replication.

Before we deploy a new application version we:

1) STOP SLAVE

2) Take a MySQL dump of the slave.

However, if a mistake is done during the deployment of the new schema version (a table is dropped by mistake, for example), having the slave intact doesn't help. Our service is write-intensive, so we can't turn it back up until we have a master working.

If we now load the mysql dump back into the master, it will take a long time during which our service remains down.

What is the best-practice to recover from such a mistake? How can I setup the system so I can easily promote the slave, turn on our service and only then tend to the broken database? Mainly, I'm worried with re-syncing the slave and the master after changes are done on the slave.

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