MySQL Performance Blog

Dear Community,

The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download.

Changelog:

• tar4ibd could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB
• prepare-speed-hack is added

Fixed bugs:

• Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: space id in fsp header 143088, but in the page header 0″
• Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with MySQL 5.1″
• Bug #394781: “xtrabackup requires write permissions on original ibdata1″
• Bug #395977: “xtrabackup 0.8 crashes during prepare after tar4ibd”
• Bug #396069: “hardcoded XTRABACKUP_VERSION”
• Bug #395407: “innobackupex reports “perl is too old””
• Bug #408966: “Unclear license terms”
• Bug #389360: “Partition files not being copied in innobackupex-1.5.1”
• Bug #394464: “batch scp copy of .frm, .MRG etc files”

The binary packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD, MacOS as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.9/.

The project lives on Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup and you can report bug to Launchpad bug system:
https://launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+filebug. The documentation is available on our Wiki.

For general questions use our Pecona-discussions group, and for development question Percona-dev group.

For support, commercial and sponsorship inquiries contact Percona.