May 26, 2012

Post: What Are Full, Incremental, and Differential Backups?

backups, and differential backups versus incremental backups. What is the difference? A full backup is pretty self-explanatory. It makes a copy of all of your MySQL data. A differential backup

Post: Thoughs on Innodb Incremental Backups

incremental backups remain the problem. First why do you need incremental backups at all ? Why not just take the full backupsof full copies of large database is not efficient. Especially if it only changes couple of percents per day. The solution MySQL

Post: Just how useful are binary logs for incremental backups?

of using it for incremental backup.  Let me make up some numbers for the purposes of this example: We have 2 Servers in a…but to replay one day of binary logs  it would take an additional 20 hours ((12 * 0… this problem should be lessened by a MySQL Server feature – parallel execution on slaves….

Post: Percona Xtrabackup 1.6.2 released!

…’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release and its development process can be found in… producing a potentially unusable backup. Bug Fixed: #758888 (Alexey Kopytov). Bugs Fixed When creating an InnoDB with its own tablespace after taking a full backup, if the log files have been flushed, taking an incremental backup based on that full one…

Post: Flexviews - part 3 - improving query performance using materialized views

mysql binary logs for point-in-time recovery after a restoring a backup. Since the backup is a essentially a ‘snapshot’ of the data at the time of the backup…practice, this means that it takes a minimum of a few seconds to incrementally refresh a view, even when the number of changes is very small. …

Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4

take a long time, innobackupex would hit the server wait_timeout and be disconnected, leading to a failed backup. With this bug fixed, instead of… send commands to MySQL on a connection that was already closed. The primary example was when running innobackupex with–incremental and –slave-save…

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

take online non-blocking backups, or things like that. But in general it can be aa syntax error in the my.cnf file. For an example, take a look at this bug report (not a bug). Looking at MySQL… second and subsequent are incremental differences. I’ll usually capture two of these. It looks like this…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6.3

…series, a server upgrade is also recommended. All of Percona… –safe-slave-backup when either –no-lock or –incremental is … while taking a backup could lead to a xtrabackup failure due to a tablespace ID mismatch when using per-table tablespaces. Note that this fix may not work correctly with MySQL

Post: Percona XtraBackup: Open Source Alternative for InnoDB Hot Backup call for ideas

backup of files. For next stages we are looking to implement advanced functionality like incremental backup (copy only changes from last backup),table-level backup

Post: MySQL Master-Master replication manager released

… used by many companies using MySQL for scale out. Most of the companies would have … ? To take care of this Master Master Manager makes sure only one of the nodes …of the nodes you can use same tool to create a backup with number of methods supported including compressed backup or incremental backups