@Stewart Smith Hmm.. I got an error when trying to run an incremental after a compressed base backup. The error was that it was not able to find the xtrabackup_checkpoints file. The base dir had the xtrabackup_checkpoints.qp instead.. AD
Comment: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables
March 25, 2012 By 20 Comments
… discussed the hot backup problems with my friends, for percona xtrabackup, i think there are three problems which forced us using… used. 3. get binlog file and binlog postion information from xtrabackup_binlog_pos_innodb file since InnoDB will wirte these information…
Post: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables
March 23, 2012 By 20 Comments
Many backup tools including Percona Xtrabackup, MyLVMBackup and others use FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK to … anyway) you can consider using –no-lock option with Percona Xtrabackup. Many other tools have similar option. This option can be…
Comment: How to recover a single InnoDB table from a Full Backup
March 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
… configuration file. I have the backup folder which contains xtrabackup log files, xtrabackup checkpoint file and a folder for my database (called…
Comment: Percona XtraDB Cluster Events
March 1, 2012 By 6 Comments
Eagle Please try to install xtrabackup 1.9.1 RPM manually from there http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/BETA/1.9.1/
Post: Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by…
Post: Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
… over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi sourced replication XtraBackup included IPv6 data type ZeroMQ plugin Log output to syslog…
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
sir , why there is only –compress method but no –uncompress for xtrabackup2.0 … , is there any plan in future to add uncompress method contained in xtrabackup binary ?
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
With xtrabackup, it only has to lock tables that aren’t InnoDB, it has the ability to take backups of InnoDB tables *without* taking locks and without any overhead of block device or filesystem snapshots.
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
Does XtraBackup take advantage of a filesystem that can take consistent read-…
