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Percona XtraBackup 1.6 for Windows “try me” edition

April 21, 2011 By 9 Comments

Previously we had XtraBackup Windows binaries for 1.0 and 1.2 releases, and they were based on Cygwin compilation of MySQL.

After MySQL 5.5 moved to CMake, and cygwin compilation is not supported anymore, it took some efforts for us to come up with native Windows builds, but they are there already. We consider them “alpha” quality, as there some know limitations,
but you should be able to make backup and restore from it. If you are interested in Windows backup I encourage you to give it a try and report your experience. Binaries are available there http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.6/Windows-alpha/

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About Vadim Tkachenko

Vadim leads Percona's development group, which produces the Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup. He is an expert in solid-state storage, and has helped many hardware and software providers succeed in the MySQL market.

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Comments

  1. Vadim Tkachenko says:
    April 21, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Peter,

    Current limitation is that you may need several tries to come up with proper working
    command line.
    Also some file paths may not work, i.e C:tmp will be treated as “C:[tab]mp” and you
    will need to change it to C://tmp (including in my.ini).

    We tested with ActivePerl version for Windows.

  2. Peter Zaitsev says:
    April 21, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Vadim,

    Great news ! What are known limitations ?

    Also what version of Perl should I use to make it work ?

  3. Peter Zaitsev says:
    April 21, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Vadim,

    Great news ! What are known limitations ?

    Also what version of Perl should I use to make it work ?

  4. Vadim Tkachenko says:
    April 21, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Peter,

    Current limitation is that you may need several tries to come up with proper working
    command line.
    Also some file paths may not work, i.e C:\tmp will be treated as “C:[tab]mp” and you
    will need to change it to C://tmp (including in my.ini).

    We tested with ActivePerl version for Windows.

  5. abdollah says:
    August 5, 2011 at 8:19 am

    http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.6/Windows-alpha/
    link dos not exits,
    i want use xtrabackup in windows, i don find version for wondows.

  6. Brian Sobel says:
    August 14, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    Having trouble locating you windows binaries, any news re: such? Thanks.

  7. Vadim Tkachenko says:
    August 15, 2011 at 10:21 pm

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

    64bit binaries may come later.

  8. Shiraaz says:
    August 17, 2011 at 5:42 am

    The zip file is corrupt, I tried downloading twice

  9. kjetilho says:
    November 28, 2011 at 4:37 am

    Hopefully this will save someone else some time: I didn’t realise at first that this binary is specific for MySQL 5.5+ since the on-disk format for InnoDB has changed since 5.1.

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