The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses, feature a variety of formal tracks and sessions. Topic areas include: high availability (HA), […]
Read MoreLast week I described TokuDB’s new Hot Backup feature. This week we are going to briefly discuss the same feature, but as it was added to TokuMX, our version of MongoDB. Since the Hot Backup library is essentially a shim between MySQL and the Linux kernel, intercepting file system calls for the life of the […]
Read MoreIn my last post, I discussed the existing backup solutions for MySQL. At the end I briefly discussed why the backup solutions for InnoDB do not apply to TokuDB. Now I’m going to outline the backup solution we created. Our solution works for both TokuDB and InnoDB. It also has no knowledge of the log […]
Read MoreThere are multiple ways to backup a MySQL database. Some are more painful than others. In this two part blog we are going to discuss why the new hot backup system in TokuDB is special amidst the existing solutions. First let’s look at existing backup solutions for MySQL and InnoDB. Let’s start with the most […]
Read MoreAs promised, the Enterprise Edition of TokuDB®, Version 7, is ready. TokuDB Version 7, Enterprise Edition, introduces Hot Backup. You can now back up all your TokuDB tables directly from MySQL or MariaDB, with no down time. In addition, TokuDB Enterprise Edition comes with a support package. TokuDB v7 Enterprise Edition maintains all our established […]
Read MoreWe just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to encrypt backups on the fly (full documentation here). This feature is different than simply piping the backup stream through the openssl or gpg binaries, which is what some people have used in the past. A big […]
Read MoreI have a 5G mysqldump which takes 30 minutes to restore from backup. That means that when the database reaches 50G, it should take 30×10=5 hours to restore. Right? Wrong.
Read MoreWe’ve written about replication slaves lagging behind masters before, but one of the other side effects of the binary log being serialized, is that it also limits the effectiveness of using it for incremental backup. Let me make up some numbers for the purposes of this example: We have 2 Servers in a Master-Slave topology. […]
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