Daniel Nichter, the author of several very useful MySQL tools, has joined with Percona to continue to improve Maatkit — the “other” toolkit we rely on daily. Daniel is a skilled Perl programmer who understands MySQL. He is in a perfect position to…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6
…. (Daniel Nichter) Added option –safe-slave-backup-timeout to innobackupex. (Daniel Nichter) Other Changes Eliminated some compiler warnings. (Stewart Smith) Ported XtraBackup to MySQL 5.1.55, MySQL 5.5.9…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4
… xtrabackup binary against more recent MySQL and Percona Server versions. We now build against: MySQL 5.1.59, MySQL 5.5.17, Percona… that only error messages go to STDERR. Bug Fixed: #514068 (Daniel Nichter and Alexey Kopytov) innobackupex would write to files named stdout…. Bug Fixed: #687544 (Valentine Gostev) When a password for the MySQL connection was given to innobackupex with the –passwordoption, innobackupex would…
Post: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
… Zaitsev: Choosing Hardware and Operating Systems for MySQL Peter Zaitsev: Instrumenting your Application for MySQL and Memcached Peter Zaitsev: InnoDB Architecture and… can play Stump The Experts with your tough problems. And Daniel Nichter will be staffing the Maatkit booth, so you can ask…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.0.1 and 1.0.2 released
… forward in our plans to create excellent free tools for MySQL administrators. There is one really big thing to talk about…, and then it’s easy to resume. Many thanks to Daniel Nichter for his diligent coding as we spec’ed, revised, tested…
Post: Announcing Percona Toolkit Release 2.0.3
… things like capacity planning. Brand new pt-stalk, courtesy of Daniel Nichter. This tool is also completely rewritten. Instead of a Bash…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
… (Yasufumi Kinoshita) XtraBackup can now be built from the MySQL 5.1.52, MySQL 5.5.7, or Percona Server 5.1… in a file, using the –tables-file option. (Yasufumi Kinoyasu & Daniel Nichter) Additional checks were added to monitor the rate the log… – xtrabackup has been updated to build from the MySQL 5.1.52, MySQL 5.5.7, or Percona Server 5.1.53…

