Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 on December 10, 2018. 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, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.
This release of Percona Xtrabackup is a General Availability release ready for use in a production environment.
Please note the following about this release:
$ xtrabackup --backup --target-dir=/data/backup
percona-release enable tools release command and then install the percona-xtrabackup-80 package.All Percona software is open-source and free. We are grateful to the community for the invaluable contributions to Percona XtraBackup. We would especially like to highlight the input of Alexey Kopytov who has been actively offering improvements and submitting bug reports for Percona XtraBackup.
xtrabackup --prepare could fail on backups of MySQL 8.0.13 databases
xtrabackup --prepare could hang while performing insert buffer merge
--throttle option was used, the applied value was different from the one specified by the user (off by one error)
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