Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 has introduced a new feature
called Log Archiving for XtraDB. This feature makes
copies of the old log files before they are overwritten, thus
saving all the redo log for a write workload.
When log archiving is enabled, it duplicates all redo log writes
in a separate set of files in addition to normal redo log
writing, creating new files as necessary.
Archived log file name format is
ib_log_archive_startlsn. The start LSN marks the log
sequence number when the archive was started. An example of the
archived log files should look like this:
ib_log_archive_00000000010145937920
ib_log_archive_00000000010196267520
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