xtrabackup-0.9.5rc

Dear Community,

As of today release 0.9.5rc is available.

In this release there are following changes:
Changelog:

• Option –no-lock is added to innobackupex-1.5.1. Use it only while ALL your
  tables are InnoDB and you DO NOT CARE about binary log
  position of backup
• XtraBackup is ported for InnoDB Plugin 1.0.4. Barracuda file format as well as compressed tables are supported. We thank a well known Social Network site for the sponsorship.
  
• Windows conscious change more
• Impoved error messages in innobackupex
• Windows conscious experimental change
• Suppress purge when –stats
• Build number in RPM name. For instance, in the name xtrabackup-0.9.5rc-50.rhel5.x86_64.rpm 50 is the build number.
• Suppress master_thread ibuf operations for –stats
• Suppress ibuf operations for –stats
• fFx fatal bug at –backup when added –stats
• New option –stats to gather index stats
• Fixed some bugs for a 32bit platform

Fixed bugs:

• Bug #435634 in Percona-XtraBackup: “xtrabackup can’t write to a file on windows”
• Bug #437788 in Percona-XtraBackup: “xtrabackup.exe can’t write to a file”
• Bug #386535 in Percona-XtraBackup: “ibbackup_binlog_marker bug still persists”
• Bug #402884 in Percona-XtraBackup: “tries to create temporary tables in relative ./tmp directory”
• Bug #417178 in Percona-XtraBackup: “can’t backup tables with $ in name”

The binary packages for RHEL4,5, Debian, FreeBSD, MacOS as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on https://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.9.5rc/.

The Debian package is also available via APT. Just add these lines  in /etc/apt/sources.list

Update the local database

And install xtrabackup

The project lives on Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup and you can report bug to Launchpad bug system:
https://launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+filebug. The documentation is available on our Wiki.

For general questions use our Pecona-discussions group, and for development question Percona-dev group.

For support, commercial and sponsorship inquiries contact Percona.