May 25, 2013

xtrabackup-0.7 (RC)

We announce next version of our xtrabackup tool and we consider it stable enough to put label RC on it. Changelist includes: – use O_DIRECT by default for handling InnoDB files – use posix fadvise call to disable OS caching of copying files – disable recovery of double buffer Also we added binary builds for [...]

RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO

In benchmarks passion (see my two previous posts) I managed to setup all three devices (RAID was on board; Intel X25-E SSD connected to HighPoint controller, FusionIO card) on our working horse Dell PowerEdge R900 (btw, to do that I had to switch from CentOS 5.2 to Ubuntu 8.10, as CentOS was not able to [...]

xtrabackup-0.6

We announce next beta version of our xtrabackup tool. Changelist includes: – set innodb_fast_shutdown=1 on xtrabackup shutdown – set innodb_write_io_threads=10 by default for fast buffer_pool flushing during recovery – build xtrabackup with –with-extra-charsets=complex Bug #357653: innobackupex-1.5.1 –copy-back fails Bug #358194: 2nd-phase is very slow Bug #358266: xtrabackup-0.5 dies with SEGV on bad command line arguments [...]

xtrabackup-0.5, bugfixes, incremental backup introduction

I am happy to announce next build of our backup tool. This version contains several bugfixes and introduces initial implementation of incremental backup. Incremental backup works in next way. When you do regular backup, at the end of procedure you can see output:

which gives start point 1319:813219999 for further incremental backup. This point [...]

xtrabackup-0.4, going beta, progress meter

We added some new features to our backup tool, namely: Now we can handle log file taken during backup with size exceeding 4GB, it may happen if backup takes too long and you have a lot of updates on InnoDB tables Progress meter during recovery step, now you can see what percentage of log file [...]

xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup

We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]

MySQL Binaries Percona build10

We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were added:

With both slow_query_log = OFF and userstat_running = OFF [...]

Percona build7 with latest patches

We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes:

and -percona-highperf release additionaly includes

You can download RPMs for RedHat / CentOS 4.x and 5.x for x86_64, binaries, sources and patches there

What is stored InnoDB buffer pool

Ever wonder what is stored in InnoDB buffer pool at the moment ? It is not so hard actually – we made a short patch for MySQL 5.0 which show innodb buffer pool content

Percona RPMS for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64

We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/ There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals. We have: microsecond resolution in slow-log extended query plan in slow-log and InnoDB statistics. You can read more here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/04/20/updated-msl-microslow-patch-installation-walk-through/ User / Table / Index statistics (Google’s patch). More [...]