Experimental Build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0 released

An experimental alpha version of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.1 is now available in the Percona experimental software repositories.

A few things to note about this release:

• We removed the deprecated innobackupex in this release
• Due to the new MySQL redo log and data dictionary formats the Percona XtraBackup 8.0.x versions will only be compatible with MySQL 8.0.x and the upcoming Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.x
• For experimental migrations from earlier database server versions, you will need to …

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 data sets and mission-critical applications that …

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 …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live is just over a week away — there’s an awesome keynote lineup, and you really should register. Also don’t forget to save the date as Percona Live goes to Frankfurt, Germany November 5-7 2018! Prost!

In acquisitions, we have seen MariaDB acquire MammothDB and …

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 …

Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on March 6, 2018 at 12:00 pm PST (UTC -8) / 3:00 pm EST (UTC -5) as Peter discusses Percona software news and what’s new in Percona open source software, including Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona XtraBackup, …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

The CFP for Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 closes December 22, 2017: please consider submitting as soon as possible. We want to make an early announcement of talks, so we’ll definitely do a first pass even before the CFP date closes. Keep in mind the expanded view of what we are after: it’s more than just MySQL and MongoDB. And don’t forget that with one day less, there will be intense competition to fit all the content in.

A new book on MySQL Cluster is out: Pro MySQL NDB Cluster by Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya Okuno. At 690 pages, it is a weighty tome, and something I fully plan on reading, considering I haven’t played with …

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 large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

This release is the current GA …

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 data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down …

This small article is about nicely depicting memory usage prior to OOM killers show.

I have started MySQL with:

/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/bin/mysqld --no-defaults \
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G --innodb_log_file_size=1G --innodb_page_size=64K --early-plugin-load=keyring_file.so \ --keyring_file_data=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/mysql-keyring/keyring \
--log-bin=mysql-bin --log-slave-updates --server-id=1 --gtid-mode=ON --enforce-gtid-consistency --binlog-format=row --core-file --basedir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64 \
--tmpdir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/data \
--datadir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/data \
--plugin-load-add=tokudb=ha_tokudb.so …