May 22, 2013

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.7

Percona is glad to announce the latest stable release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.7 on December 20th, 2012 (Downloads are available here). This release is purely composed of bug fixes to the previous stable release of Percona XtraBackup. New users should head for Percona XtraBackup 2.0 rather than 1.6. Bugs Fixed: xtrabackup_binary was not included in tar [...]

Replaying database load with Percona Playback

If you are planning to upgrade or make any configuration change on your MySQL database the first advice usually is: – Benchmark! How should we do that benchmark? People usually run generic benchmark tools like sysbench, tpcc or mysqlslap that are good to know the number of transactions per seconds that a database can do [...]

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA

I’m really excited to today announce the first GA (Generally Available; i.e. stable) release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We have worked hard since our last major release on improving the reliability and user experience of Percona XtraBackup as well as adding features to make it better suited to more environments. The 2.0.0 release contains no [...]

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.6

I am happy to also announce the latest minor release in the Percona XtraBackup 1.6 series. We recognise that not everybody will want or be able to make the leap to our new major release, Percona XtraBackup 2.0 and so we’re also releasing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.6. This is a minor release and source code and [...]

Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 released (Beta)

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 on 28th March 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here. This is a late BETA release in the process of going towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0. This is a BETA quality release and is not inteded for production. If you want a high quality, Generally Available [...]

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.9.1

Percona is glad to announce the second beta release towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0! We call this version 1.9.1 as we are using the 1.9.x version numbers for betas of 2.0 to clearly differentiate beta releases from the final 2.0 release. We do not recommend using Beta releases in production. Link to BETA version and Release notes.

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. There are some important bug fixes around incremental backups, parallel backups and backups on databases with the system [...]

Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0 Beta 1

Percona is glad to announce our first Beta release of what will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup. Since this is a beta release, you should not rely on it for production workloads – use the stable 1.6 series of Percona XtraBackup [...]

XtraBackup 1.6.4 respin

Very shortly after the XtraBackup 1.6.4 binaries hit the downloads site and repositories, it was found to have a bug where the master information was not properly stored, thus breaking point in time recovery and the ability to start a slave from a backup. This was caught and fixed really quickly and we’ve re-spun the [...]

Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4 on 19 December, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). These release notes are (as always) available from the online Percona XtraBackup documentation. This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. In this release we now [...]