February 11, 2012

Hint: throttling xtrabackup

Using xtrabackup for copying files can really saturate your disks, and that why we made special option –throttle=rate to limit rate of IO per second. But it really works when you do local copy. What about stream backup ? Even you copy just to remote box with innobackupex –stream=tar | ssh remotebox “tar xfi -” [...]

MySQL Pays attention to Bugs (Finally!)

I should say I can see results of new engineering/refactoring/bug hunt efforts inside Sun/MySQL. Over last couple of weeks I started getting a lot of messages from the bugs system about bugs I reported long ago which were deferred to be fixed later or were left in open state. Here is example of such a [...]