by Jaime Sicam | Jul 1, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
It’s bad practice to provide world-writable access to critical files in Linux, though we’ve seen time and time again that this is done to conveniently share files with other users, applications, or services. But with Xtrabackup, preparing backups could go...
by Borys Belinsky | May 9, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.6 on May 9, 2019. 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...
by Borys Belinsky | May 1, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.14 on May 1, 2019. 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...
by Borys Belinsky | Jan 18, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.13 on January 18, 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...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jun 25, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.12 on June 22, 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...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Apr 24, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.11 on April 24, 2018. This release is based on MySQL 5.7.19. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries,...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Mar 30, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.10 on March 30, 2018. This release is based on MySQL 5.7.19. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 29, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.10 on November 29, 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...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 29, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.9 on November 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...
by Shahriyar Rzayev | Nov 27, 2017 | Insight for DBAs
There is a new version of the autoxtrabackup tool. In this post, I’ll provide some of the highlights available this time around. autoxtrabackup is a tool created by PerconLabs. We’ve now put out the 1.5.0 version, and you can test it further. Note:...
by Dave Avery | Sep 27, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software
Pepper.com, the world’s largest community deal platform, has selected Percona to manage its open source database performance. Pepper.com’s around-the-clock community seeks and finds the best offers in fashion, electronics, traveling and much more. With 500 million...
by Emily Ikuta | Sep 5, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software, Webinars
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. Reserve Your Spot During this webinar Peter will talk about newly...
by Shahriyar Rzayev | Aug 8, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
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...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jul 24, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
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...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jul 24, 2017 | Percona Events, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.9 on July 24, 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...
by Dave Avery | May 30, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
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). Register Now Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online...
by Dave Avery | May 24, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
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...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 20, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Software
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...
by Shahriyar Rzayev | Mar 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to restore a single InnoDB table from a full backup after dropping the table. You can also see an earlier blog post about restoring a single table from a full backup here: How to recover a single InnoDB table from a full...
by David Busby | Jan 12, 2017 | MySQL, Security
If you are using Percona XtraBackup with xbcrypt to create encrypted backups, and are using versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5, we advise that you upgrade Percona XtraBackup. Note: this does not affect encryption of encrypted InnoDB tables. CVE-2016-6225 Percona...
