Comments on: Percona XtraBackup: Open Source Alternative for InnoDB Hot Backup call for ideas

By: jens

jens — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:29:52 +0000

You guys at Percona a great!

I just saw the comparison of your tool with the mysql tool (http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/intro.html) and its impressive to see your features list. Thank you very much for open sourcing and sharing such a great tool!

jens

By: honeybee

honeybee — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:15:13 +0000

Thanks, Baron

By: Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:05:29 +0000

That is a known limitation that can’t be fixed.

By: honeybee

honeybee — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:03:51 +0000

Vadim:

xtrabackup full backup works great with both innodb and myisam. but from my testing, xtrabackup incremental backup ONLY work great with innodb, it does not work with MYISAM (it does not catch the incremental changes of myisam).
Is this a known issue or I did something wrong?
Thanks a lot

By: Vadim Tkachenko

Vadim Tkachenko — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:22:27 +0000

We reposted 32bit binaries there
http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.6/Windows-alpha/32bit/

By: abdollah

abdollah — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:18:31 +0000

i cant download and use xtrabackup in windows,
help me please.

By: abdollah

abdollah — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:17:57 +0000

i cannot download and use xtrabackup in windows, can u help me?

By: Vadim

Vadim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:49:35 +0000

Scott,

There no really options to improve backups.
Only you may want to use –use-memory when you run –apply-log stage.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:30:30 +0000

I’m currently trying this out on our MySQL 5 database that has a 950GB ibdata file (stores millions of blob PDF files). The current command I am using is:

“C:\Program Files\Percona Inc\XtraBackup\xtrabackup.exe” –defaults-file=C:\MySQL\my.ini –backup –innodb_data_home_dir=E:\MySQLData\data –innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:10M:autoextend –target-dir=E:\Backup –tmpdir=E:\TempBackupFiles

Any hints on any other options I should be setting for such a large database?

Thanks!
Scott

By: Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:06:46 +0000

Juan,

We are working directly with customers and fully understand all practical needs.
Of course xtrabackup stores binary log position on master.