Tag: Xtrabackup

Today is World Backup Day, reminding us of the importance of backups. Here at Pythian we LOVE YOUR DATA and as database consultants we are therefore very much focussed on making sure that our client’s data is always secure and…

Overview There are times when I need to restore a slave from a backup of a master or another slave, but too many times I have taken the typical approach of taking the backup on the source server and then…

In a previous post I had mentioned that I was doing a bit of digging into Docker in order to get a better grasp of the technology. Part of that was exploring common administrative tasks. I would venture to say…

On April 4th 2012 Xtrabackup 2.0 was released in to GA by Percona along with a new streaming feature called xbstream. This new tool allowed for compression and parallelism of streaming backups when running xtrabackup or innobackupex without having to…

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, provides examples of useful operations using xtrabackup.

Overview Cloud storage is becoming more and more popular for offsite storage and DR solutions for many businesses. This post will help with those people that want to perform this process for MySQL backups directly into Amazon S3 Storage. These…