Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents Percona Software News and Roadmap Update on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).
Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev discuss what’s new in Percona open source software. Topics include Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Monitoring and Management.
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[Read more]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 with large data sets and mission-critical applications …
[Read more]Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 on December 10, 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 cannot tolerate …
[Read more]Quickly Add a Node to an InnoDB Cluster or Group Replication (Shutterstock)
In this blog, we’ll look at how to quickly add a node to an InnoDB Cluster or Group Replication using Percona XtraBackup.
Adding nodes to a Group Replication cluster can be easy (documented here), but it only works if the existing nodes have retained all the binary logs since the creation of the cluster. Obviously, this is possible if you create a new cluster from scratch. The nodes rotate old logs after some time, however. Technically, if the
gtid_purged
set is non-empty, it means you will need another method to add a new node to a cluster. You also …
[Read more]Percona is glad to announce the release candidate of Percona XtraBackup 8.0-3-rc1 on October 31 2018. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.
This is a Release Candidate quality release and
it is not intended for
production. If you want a high quality, Generally
Available release, use the current stable version (the
most recent …
The second alpha build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.2 is now available in the Percona experimental software repositories.
Note that, 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 Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.x. This release supports backing up Percona Server 8.0 Alpha.
For experimental migrations from earlier database server versions, you will need to backup and restore and using XtraBackup 2.4 and then use mysql_upgrade from MySQL 8.0.x
PXB 8.0.2 alpha is available for the following …
[Read more]To use Percona XtraBackup with keyring_vault plugin enabled you need to take some special measures to secure a working backup. This post addresses how to backup Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled. We also run through the steps needed to restore the backup from the master to a slave.
This is the second of a two-part series on setting up Hashicorp Vault with Percona Server for MySQL with the keyring_vault plugin. First part is Using the keyring_vault plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.
Backing up from the master
First you need to install the latest Percona XtraBackup 2.4 package, in this tutorial I used this version:
[root@mysql1 ~]# xtrabackup --version xtrabackup: recognized server arguments: --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --log_bin=mysqld-bin …[Read more]
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:
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 …
[Read more]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 …
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