Thanks for all, who attended my webinar, I got many questions and I wanted to take this opportunity to answer them. Q: Even ntp has a delay of 0.3-0.4 between servers does that mean a 0.25 as from logs can be an issue ? A: My demo vms were running for a few hours before [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.3
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.3 on October 1st, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features: innobackupex now supports new –move-back option that can be used instead of –copy-back in case [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.2
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.2 on August 13th, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. Bugs Fixed: Fixed false positive test suite failures with grep 2.10. Bug fixed #996483 (Alexey Kopytov). Incremental backup would [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.1 on June 25th, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. This release contains over 20 fixed bugs, some of the more significant bugs fixed are: [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster reference architecture with HaProxy
This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of virtualization technology (for example VirtualBox). The goal is to give step by step instructions, so the setup process is understandable and [...]
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the major improvements in this release over the previous stable release, Drizzle 7.0. I plan to write a variety of blog posts on each of the new features over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
I’m really excited to today announce the first GA (Generally Available; i.e. stable) release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We have worked hard since our last major release on improving the reliability and user experience of Percona XtraBackup as well as adding features to make it better suited to more environments. The 2.0.0 release contains no [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 released (Beta)
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 on 28th March 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here. This is a late BETA release in the process of going towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0. This is a BETA quality release and is not inteded for production. If you want a high quality, Generally Available [...]
How to recover deleted rows from an InnoDB Tablespace
In my previous post I explained how it could be possible to recover, on some specific cases, a single table from a full backup in order to save time and make the recovery process more straightforward. Now the scenario is worse because we don’t have a backup or the backup restore process doesn’t work. How [...]
My talks on PL MySQL Conference (+free book inside)
On coming PL MySQL conference 2012 I will give one tutorial: Percona XtraBackup: install, usage, tricks. This tutorial I will do in joint with Alexey Kopytov, the lead developer of Percona XtraBackup. Our intent is to provide the comprehensive overview of the XtraBackup architecture and features, and we will touch future roadmap. This is all [...]

