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 [...]
Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 21, 2009 By 28 Comments
I find it very interesting how Sun does not get the very basic principle of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop product in the secret and when it comes out as a surprise for computers and making a big [...]
xtrabackup-0.5, bugfixes, incremental backup introduction
April 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
I am happy to announce next build of our backup tool. This version contains several bugfixes and introduces initial implementation of incremental backup. Incremental backup works in next way. When you do regular backup, at the end of procedure you can see output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | The latest check point (for incremental): '1319:813219999' >> log scanned up to (1319 813701532) Transaction log of lsn (1318 3034677302) to (1319 813701532) was copied. 090404 06:03:29 innobackupex: All tables unlocked 090404 06:03:29 innobackupex: Connection to database server closed innobackupex: Backup created in directory '/mnt/data/tmp' innobackupex: MySQL binlog position: filename 'db02-bin.001271', position 247627478 090404 06:07:58 innobackupex: innobackup completed OK! innobackupex: You must use -i (--ignore-zeros) option for extraction of the tar stream. |
which gives start point 1319:813219999 for further incremental backup. This point [...]
xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup
March 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]
Percona XtraBackup: Open Source Alternative for InnoDB Hot Backup call for ideas
February 24, 2009 By 20 Comments
For long time as main backup solution for MySQL on Linux we have been using LVM snapshots. Performance concerns from performance critical envinronment caused us to do LVM performance research which showed horrible results forcing us to look at more performing alternatives. Innodb Hot Backup is a good working solution but it is not Open [...]
