Percona XtraBackup 1.4 is now available for download. Version 1.4 fixes problems related to incremental backups. If you do incremental backups, it’s strongly recommended that you upgrade to this release. Functionality Added or Changed Incremental backups have changed and now allow the restoration of full backups containing certain rollback transactions that previously caused problems. Please [...]
Percona Server 5.1.47-rel11.0
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.47-rel11.0 is available for download now. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server is now based on MySQL 5.1.47, and XtraDB is now based on InnoDB plugin 1.0.8. XtraDB now uses the fast recovery code released in InnoDB Plugin version 1.0.8, instead of Percona’s earlier fast-recovery code. [...]
Percona Server 5.0.90-build21
Dear Community, Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.90 Fixed bugs: Fixed Bug #539190 Percona-XtraDB package doesn’t allow libmysqlclient15off Fixed Bug #479106 mysql-5.0.87 + patches-5.0.86 compile fail in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Fixed tests mysql, mysql_upgrade, ssl* See [...]
Percona-XtraDB version 9.1
Dear Community, We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine. The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages. New features in version 9.1: MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB Enabled support of SSL [...]
5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
Dear Community, We are pleased to present the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.87 innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3 To be compatible with RedHat RPM repository, the naming scheme has changed to
1 | <rpm name>-<mysql version>-<percona build version>.<buildnumber>.<redhat version>.<architecture>.rpm |
Example:
1 | MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5.x86_64.rpm |
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5.0.77 / 5.0.82 -build16 Percona binaries
Dear community, We are pleased to announce the build16 of MySQL server® with Percona patches. Since the build13 there was a couple of customer specific releases, which explains cutover in numbering and a pause between the builds. Also we prepared build for both 5.0.77 and 5.0.82 versions. Since that time new patches were added: profiling_slow.patch [...]
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 [...]
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:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | The latest check point (for incremental): '1319:813219999' >> log scanned up to (1319 813701532) Transaction log of lsn (1318 3034677302) to (1319 813701532) was copied. 090404 06:03:29 innobackupex: All tables unlocked 090404 06:03:29 innobackupex: Connection to database server closed innobackupex: Backup created in directory '/mnt/data/tmp' innobackupex: MySQL binlog position: filename 'db02-bin.001271', position 247627478 090404 06:07:58 innobackupex: innobackup completed OK! innobackupex: You must use -i (--ignore-zeros) option for extraction of the tar stream. |
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 [...]

