Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (UTC-7) discuss the Percona roadmap, as well as what’s new in Percona open source software.
During this webinar Peter will talk about newly released features in Percona software, show a few quick demos and share with you highlights from the Percona open source software roadmap. This discussion will cover …
[Read more]This blog discusses newly added options for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 and how they can impact your database backups.
To avoid issues with MySQL 5.7 skipping the redo log for DDL, Percona XtraBackup has implemented three new options (
xtrabackup --lock-ddl
,
xtrabackup --lock-ddl-timeout
,
xtrabackup --lock-ddl-per-table
) that can be used to place MDL locks on tables while they are copied.
So why we need those options? Let’s discuss the process used to get there.
Originally, we found problems while running DDLs: Percona XtraBackup produced corrupted backups as described in two reports:
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 on July 24, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona …
[Read more]In this post, we’ll look at strategies for backups and disaster recovery.
Note: I am giving a talk on Backups and Disaster Recovery Best Practices on July 27th.
When discussing disaster recovery, it’s important to take your business’ continuity plan into consideration. Backup and recovery processes are a critical part of any application infrastructure.
A well-tested backup and recovery system can be the difference between a minor outage and the end of your business.
You will want to take …
[Read more]Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.7-2 on May 29, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona …
[Read more]Please join Percona’s solution engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Online MySQL Backups with Percona XtraBackup on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).
Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server, MySQL® and MariaDB®. Percona XtraBackup provides:
This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017).
A full recording of this webinar, along with the presentation slide deck, can be found here.
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Below are the latest and upcoming features in Percona’s software. All of Percona’s software is 100% free and open source, with no …
[Read more]Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.7 on April 18, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona …
[Read more]Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.8 on April 18, 2017. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.
This release is the …
[Read more]In this blog, we’ll look at running Percona XtraBackup on Windows via a Docker container.
The question whether Percona XtraBackup is available for Windows comes up every so often. While we are not planning to provide regular releases for Windows, I decided to share a way to run Percona XtraBackup in a Docker container (especially since Docker support for Windows has become more and more stable).
For this exercise, I created a playground Docker
image: perconalab/percona-xtrabackup.
First, we need to prepare a few things to make it work:
