Feb 11, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Incremental backups of MySQL, specifically for the InnoDB engine, are taken by copying modified pages from the previous backup. The brute force method takes backups by scanning every page in tablespace file in the server data directory is an expensive operation. The time required for incremental backups increases as the data-dir size increases. To solve this […]
Feb 08, 2022 |
MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup delivers the xbcloud binary – an auxiliary tool to allow users to upload backups to different cloud providers directly. Today we are glad to announce the support of the Azure Blob storage to xbcloud. This new feature will allow you to upload/download backups to Azure Blob storage. You would need an Azure storage […]
Apr 15, 2020 |
MySQL, Percona Software
Databases are complicated software made to handle the concurrent load while making specific guarantees about data consistency and availability. There are many scenarios which should be tested that can only happen under concurrent conditions. Pstress is a probability-based open-source database testing tool designed to run in concurrency and to test if the database can recover when […]