… will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup. Since this is… production workloads – use the stable 1.6 series of Percona XtraBackup instead. In this beta we’re proud to add: support… from our download site: http://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/BETA/1.9.0/ . As this is a BETA release, we do…
Post: 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 … 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 fail…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.9.1
… XtraBackup 2.0! We call this version 1.9.1 as we are using the 1.9.x version numbers for betas of 2.0… was only possible to stream full backups. Parallel compression Percona XtraBackup can now use multiple CPUs to perform a compressed backup… at once. tar4ibd functionality is replaced by functionality in the xtrabackup binary itself. The xbstream utility is added This utility has…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.6
… to also announce the latest minor release in the Percona XtraBackup 1.6 series. We recognise that not everybody will want… leap to our new major release, Percona XtraBackup 2.0 and so we’re also releasing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.6. This is a…. Our main APT and YUM repositories are now carrying Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0, so you won’t see 1.6.6 there. We…
Post: 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… late BETA release in the process of going towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0. This is a BETA quality release and is not inteded… be used to distinguish between pre-release versions of PerconaXtraBackup 2.0 and the Generally Available final release. If you wish to…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.7
… stable release of Percona XtraBackup. New users should head for Percona XtraBackup 2.0 rather than 1.6. Bugs Fixed: xtrabackup_binary was not included… regression introduced in XtraBackup 1.6.5. Bug fixed #983685 (Sergei Glushchenko). Fixed spurious test suite failures with grep 2.10. Bug…
Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 - Beta release
… Galera 2.0 GA The main focus in this release: Incremental State Transfer, especially useful for WAN deployments Support of Percona XtraBackup for Snapshot State Transfer. This feature is available in pre-release series for XtraBackup 2.0 Despite Galera 2.0 has status…
Post: Avoiding SST when adding new Percona XtraDB Cluster node
… a backup for this purpose, we have 3 prerequisites: use XtraBackup >= 2.0.1 the backup needs to be performed with –galera-info… have your backup, you should now see a file called xtrabackup_galera_info. The file contains the local node state at… fetched during the backup. For example, if we have in xtrabackup_galera_info the following content: 5f22b204-dc6b-11e1-0800-7a9c9624dd66…
Post: Xtrabackup, doing once...
… coding and testing I am more than happy to declare Xtrabackup getting into alpha stage. And alpha means more that we… box and restore it! As there were some questions how xtrabackup works, let me explain it: it is supposed to be… in source code version on Launchpad lp:~percona-dev/percona-xtrabackup/alpha-0.2 , after some polishing and more testing we will prepare…
Post: MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL
… to no major impact on the server. For example in xtrabackup 2.0.5+, the time taken for “FLUSH TABLES WITH RAED LOCK… typically 3x-5x smaller vs compressed xtrabackup Typically we upload mydumper backups to s3 vs xtrabackup given the time needed to upload… Strategies on retention dailies weeklies, long term backups Decompressing Percona XtraBackup for MySQL in parallel using all your resources available Downloading…

