A week or two ago one of my former colleagues (at Percona) Jevin Real gave a talk titled Evolving Backups Strategy, Deploying pyxbackup at Percona Live 2015 in Amsterdam. I think Jervin raised some very good points about where MySQL backup solutions in general fall short. There are definitely a lot of tools and scripts out there that claim to do MySQL backups correctly, but don’t actually do it correctly. What I am more interested though is in measuring TwinDB against the points that Jervin highlighted to see if TwinDB falls short too.

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We distribute TwinDB agent as a package that can be installed using the standard OS package management system. For example, using YUM on CentOS, RHEL and Amazon Linux, or using APT …

There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and …

Some months ago, Google released a patch for InnoDB that boosts performance on multi-core servers. We decided to incorporate the change into the InnoDB Plugin to make everybody happy: users of InnoDB don’t have to apply the patch, and Google no longer has to maintain the patch for new versions of InnoDB. And it makes us at Innobase happy because it improves our product (as you can in this post about InnoDB Plugin release 1.0.3).

However, there are always technical and business issues to address. Given the low-level changes in the patch, was it technically sound? Was the patch stable and as rock solid as is the rest of InnoDB? Although it was written for the built-in InnoDB in MySQL 5.0.37, we needed to adapt it to the InnoDB Plugin. Could we …