We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests.
Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup:
1) Does it work only with XtraDB or with InnoDB also ?
A: xtrabackup is designed to work with standard version of InnoDB in MySQL 5.0. MySQL 5.1 + standard InnoDB / InnoDB-plugin also are supported. It can fully work as drop-in replacement of innodbackup tool and InnoDB Hot Backup online backup.
2) Do we need to run patched MySQL, because the build instruction mentions the patch for MySQL ?
A: xtrabackup can be run with any version of MySQL: community release, enterprise release, percona builds, ourdelta distributions. You do not need to patch MySQL to run backup. The patch for MySQL is needed only to build the binaries of xtrabackup from source code. If you are not comfortable with building from source we provide the binaries for xtrabackup-0.3
New version of xtrabackup contains the feature which is missed in InnoDB Hot Backup – the backup can be produced as stream and copied to remote box or tape, or compressed without needs to store full copy of database on local disks. Very often there is no space to store second copy of database and you need to mount SAN/NAS for extra space. So now you can run it as
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innobackupex --stream=tar ./ | ssh user@host cat ">" backup.tar |
and get copy on remote box.
Also new features in 0.3 – it can be compiled against 5.1 and it supports OS X (sponsored feature).
Now we are developing to next feature which is not available for InnoDB users in any form so far – it is incremental and differential backups. Having that you will be able to make copy only of CHANGED data since given backup, there will not be needs to copy whole 250GB datafile if it changed only 1GB of data since yesterday.
You can download current binaries RPM for RHEL4 and RHEL5 (compatible with CentOS also) and DEB for Debian/Ubuntu there
https://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.3/.
By the same link you can find general .tar.gz with binaries which can be run on any modern Linux distribution.
By the same link you can download source code if you do not want to deal with bazaar and Launchpad.
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
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