Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here. For this RC release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages This is an Release Candidate quality release and is not intended for [...]
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 ‘release candidate’ for MySQL available for download
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta now available
April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta on April 22, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here. For this BETA release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages This is an BETA quality release and is not [...]
10 years of MySQL User Conferences
April 11, 2013 By 6 Comments
In preparing for this month’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, I’ve been reminiscing about the annual MySQL User Conference’s history – the 9 times it previously took place in its various reincarnations – and there are a lot of good things, fun things to remember. 2003 was the year that marked the first MySQL user conference [...]
Why use encrypted backup with Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL?
April 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to encrypt backups on the fly (full documentation here). This feature is different than simply piping the backup stream through the openssl or gpg binaries, which is what some people have used in the past. A big [...]
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha on April 2, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here. For this ALPHA release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages This is an ALPHA quality release and is not [...]
Shard-Query EC2 images available
May 11, 2011 By 2 Comments
Infobright and InnoDB AMI images are now available There are now demonstration AMI images for Shard-Query. Each image comes pre-loaded with the data used in the previous Shard-Query blog post. The data in the each image is split into 20 “shards”. This blog post will refer to an EC2 instances as a node from here [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.6 for Windows “try me” edition
April 21, 2011 By 9 Comments
Previously we had XtraBackup Windows binaries for 1.0 and 1.2 releases, and they were based on Cygwin compilation of MySQL. After MySQL 5.5 moved to CMake, and cygwin compilation is not supported anymore, it took some efforts for us to come up with native Windows builds, but they are there already. We consider them “alpha” [...]
xtrabackup-1.1
March 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Dear Community, It is time to announce the next version of backup software from Percona – XtraBackup 1.1. The list of changes in version 1.1 includes: Changelog: XtraBackup is built on a base of MySQL 5.1.44 with InnoDB plugin 1.0.6 Added –host option tar4ibd can treat over 64GB file tar4ibd is default method for stream, [...]
xtrabackup-1.0
December 9, 2009 By 16 Comments
Dear Community, As of today release 1.0 is available. In this release there are following changes: Changelog: XtraBackup is ported to Windows. The .MSI package as well as .tar.gz is available for 32 bit platform Be more verbose on reporting scp errors Fixed bugs: Bug #463691 in Percona-XtraBackup: “innobackupex-1.5.1 –help goes to STDERR” Bug #463709 [...]
xtrabackup-0.9.5rc
October 24, 2009 By 13 Comments
Dear Community, As of today release 0.9.5rc is available. In this release there are following changes: Changelog: Option –no-lock is added to innobackupex-1.5.1. Use it only while ALL your tables are InnoDB and you DO NOT CARE about binary log position of backup XtraBackup is ported for InnoDB Plugin 1.0.4. Barracuda file format as well [...]
