Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.3 on 22 September, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona Xtrabackup. If the innodb_file_per_table server option is being used and DDL operations, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP/CREATE the_same_table or ALTER statements on InnoDB tables are [...]
Reasons for MySQL Replication Lag
July 29, 2011 By 9 Comments
One common theme in the questions our MySQL Support customers ask is MySQL Replication Lag. The story is typically along the lines everything is same as before and for some unknown reason the slave is started to lag and not catching up any more. I always smile at “nothing has changed” claim as it usually [...]
Percona Xtrabackup 1.6.2 released!
July 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.2 on 25 July, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from thePercona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona Xtrabackup. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release and [...]
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” [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 18th
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week wasn’t so active in terms of new development, because many of us were at the MySQL conference, of course. However, we did push out the XtraBackup 1.6 release, and began work on backporting some features from MySQL 5.6 to 5.1 for a certain large customer. Several of the features we’ve added in 5.0 [...]
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.
Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 11th
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week was rather less newsworthy in Percona Server land, as we spent a lot of time preparing for the MySQL Conference and Collaborate, and Vadim was on vacation. One interesting tidbit: I wrote some scripts analyze our log files and found that we were massively under-counting the number of downloads for Percona Server, due [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup available on Solaris
March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I am happy to announce that Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup are now available for the Solaris platform! You can download the latest Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6 stable release from our download area. As for Percona XtraBackup, we made Solaris binaries for the upcoming XtraBackup-1.6 release, and they are available from “pre-release” directory. There are couple [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 19th
March 20, 2011 By 2 Comments
Here’s what is new in Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup since last week. We are working on compiling and checking download statistics for both pieces of software. The preliminary numbers are far higher than I thought they would be. Both Percona Server and XtraBackup are becoming amazingly popular. I am aware of deployments running into [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 5th
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What’s new this week in Percona Server:
