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 [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.6
April 12, 2011 By 15 Comments
Percona XtraBackup 1.6 is now available for download and is the current stable release version of XtraBackup.
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 [...]
xtrabackup-0.9
August 20, 2009 By 4 Comments
Dear Community, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Changelog: tar4ibd could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB prepare-speed-hack is added Fixed bugs: Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: space id in fsp header 143088, but in the page header 0″ Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with [...]
xtrabackup-0.8
July 1, 2009 By 8 Comments
Dear community, The release 0.8 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Key features: New mode of innobackupex –stream=tar4ibd; new command tar4ibd based on libtar-1.2.11 Experimental option –export is added (see Vadim’s post “Impossible – possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers”for details) tar4ibd is made to be sure that [...]
Btw xtrabackup is not only backup..
May 7, 2009 By 13 Comments
It is obvious thing for me, but I just figured out it may be not common understanding. Xtrabackup is also can be used (not only can, but we actually use it this way) to clone one slave to another, or just setup new slave from the master. And it is done in almost non-blocking way [...]
xtrabackup-0.6
April 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
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 [...]
