June 18, 2013

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download

… the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release… now avoids loading non-relevant tablespaces when partial backup is being taken which speeds up the backup process. Bug fixed #1130145. Percona XtraBackup…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download

… Buffer Pool in Percona Server. MySQL 5.6 buffer pool dump is copied into backup directory during the backup stage. During the copy… GTID value in the xtrabackup_binlog_info when doing the backup of MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 with the GTID mode… tablespaces when partial backup is being taken which speeds up the backup process. Bug fixed #1130145. Due to different implementation in MySQL 5.6…

Post: Upcoming webinar on Percona XtraBackup

backups much easier and faster with Percona XtraBackup utility. We will discuss: * XtraBackup operational principles * Sample usage scenarios * Full backups * Incremental and partial backups * Importing and exporting individual tables * Streaming and parallel backups * Limitations and common issues. You…

Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 5th

… Squeeze in our repositories on the next release based on MySQL 5.1.55, which we estimate will be released on… decided to make innobackupex always back up the MySQL system database, even for partial backups; it contains data that is necessary to restore…

Post: Filtered MySQL Replication

…’m not a big fan of filtered or partial MySQL Replication (as of version MySQL 5.0) – there is enough gotchas with replication… to perform mapping between master positions which you get with backup to distribution slave position. You can also clone other slaves… you can see no matter which road you take with partial MySQL Replication there are things to be careful with, so if…

Post: MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL

… XtraBackup for MySQL for binary backups mydumper for logical backups mysqlbinlog 5.6 Amazon S3 monitoring for all the above Philosophy on backups  It… Re-transfer files that are partially transferred Compress the files after successful transfer Amazon S3 for MySQL I discuss S3 here but…

Post: MySQL Crash Recovery

…. Partially written .frm files or .frm being unsync with internal Innodb dictionary may cause MySQL to fail with wierd error messages. In MySQL… other problems which you may experience related to MySQL Crash Recovery – Restoring data from backup, corrupted Innodb tablespace recovery etc but I…

Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

…. MySQL also has broken group commit (which we have partial fix for) meaning concurrent transaction commits will need to be serialized. Second, MySQLMySQL replication is a showstopper) and it also solves the other big pain of semi-online MySQL/OS upgrades and Schema changes. Backups

Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.1

…, so that a full backup could be used for incremental backups without decompression. Bug fixed #977652 (Alexey Kopytov). Streaming backups with –stream=tar… with the “log block checksum mismatch” error when reading the partially written log block. Bug fixed #1015416 (Alexey Kopytov). Release notes…

Post: Announcing Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0

… tracking. This feature will be used for implementing faster incremental backups that use this information to avoid full data scans. New… unbootable server. Bug fixed #999147 (Laurynas Biveinis). Fixed the upstream MySQL bug #66301. Concurrent INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements on… end up with a partially written dump file in case of a crash, or when making a backup copy of it. Safer…