State Snapshot Transfer (SST) at a glance PXC uses a protocol called State Snapshot Transfer to provision a node joining an existing cluster with all the data it needs to synchronize. This is analogous to cloning a slave in asynchronous replication: you take a full backup of one node and copy it to the new […]
Read MoreContents Summary Analysis Mitigating factors P.O.C Acknowledgments Summary During a code audit performed internally at Percona, we discovered a viable information disclosure attack when coupled with a MITM attack in which percona-toolkit and xtrabackup perl components could be coerced into returning additional MySQL configuration information. The vulnerability has since been closed. Timeline 2014-12-16 Initial research, […]
Read MorePercona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.6 on November 25th, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.1 series. Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking […]
Read MoreWith the last Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) release, two major features were added: * a new command to bootstrap the cluster was added to the init script * SST via Xtrabackup now supports Xtrabackup 2.1 features In this post, I want to explain the benefits of these added features and how to use them. If […]
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The aim of this post is to enumerate real-world usage of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and also to solicit use cases from the readers. One of the prominent usages in the production environment that we have come across (and our Percona consultants have assisted) is that of HP Cloud. There is a post about it […]
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 MorePercona is glad to announce the latest stable release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.7 on December 20th, 2012 (Downloads are available here). This release is purely composed of bug fixes to the previous stable release of Percona XtraBackup. New users should head for Percona XtraBackup 2.0 rather than 1.6. Bugs Fixed: xtrabackup_binary was not included in tar […]
Read MorePercona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. There are some important bug fixes around incremental backups, parallel backups and backups on databases with the system […]
Read MorePercona is glad to announce our first Beta release of what will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup. Since this is a beta release, you should not rely on it for production workloads – use the stable 1.6 series of Percona XtraBackup […]
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.
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