December 9, 2009

xtrabackup-1.0

Posted by Aleksandr Kuzminsky |

Dear Community,

As of today release 1.0 is available.

In this release there are following changes:
Changelog:

  • XtraBackup is ported to Windows. The .MSI package as well as .tar.gz is available for 32 bit platform
  • Be more verbose on reporting scp errors

Fixed bugs:

The binary packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD, Windows as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/1.0/. MacOS packages will come later.

Debian and RPM are available in Percona repository

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.

Posted by Aleksandr Kuzminsky @ 11:26 pm :: mysql :: 16 comments
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Why delayed flushing can result in less work

Posted by Baron Schwartz |

I can think of at least two major reasons why systems delay flushing changes to durable storage:

1. So they can do the work when it’s more convenient.
2. So they can do less work in total.

Let’s look at how the second property can be true.

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Posted by Baron Schwartz @ 10:44 pm :: Innodb, mysql :: 5 comments
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