MySQL Performance Blog

Dear Community,

It is time to announce the next version of backup software from Percona – XtraBackup 1.1.

The list of changes in version 1.1 includes:
Changelog:

• XtraBackup is built on a base of MySQL 5.1.44 with InnoDB plugin 1.0.6
• Added –host option
• tar4ibd can treat over 64GB file
• tar4ibd is default method for stream, even tar is specified
• the binary supports compressed tables and Baraccuda format

Fixed bugs:

• Bug #529874: innobackupex cannot treat exit code of xtrabackup executable
• Bug #498660: xtrabackup not handling barracuda compressed table format
• Bug #498660: innobackupex doesn’t pass –defaults-files to mysql child proc
• Bug #510960: innobackupex –remote-host scp doesn’t copy MyISAM files

The binary packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/percona-builds/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.1/.

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.