Percona XtraBackup moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PXB

Do Incremental Backups Without Full Copy

Registered by Baron Schwartz on 2010-10-22

Add --incremental-lsn-dir option to xtrabackup and make it write a copy of the xtrabackup_checkpoints file there. If the directory or its parents do not exist, create them. With this feature, if the backup is stored on a different machine, then we can still do incremental backups by saying --incremental-basedir=/path/to/dir, and we do not need to keep full backups locally. Also make innobackupex support this feature.

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Status:: Complete

Approver:: None

Priority:: Undefined

Drafter:: None

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: None

Definition:: New

Series goal:: Accepted for 1.6

Implementation:: Implemented

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Alexey Kopytov on 2011-12-23

Completed by: Alexey Kopytov on 2011-12-23

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lp://staging/~baron-xaprb/percona-xtrabackup/extra-lsndir

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I have added the --extra-lsndir option. If this is given, xtrabackup will create the specified directory if it doesn't exist, and write an extra copy of the xtrabackup_checkpoints file into it.

It is then possible on subsequent incremental backups to refer to that directory as the --incremental-basedir. For example,

[baron@ginger 5.1.41]$ xtrabackup --datadir=data --backup --target-dir=backup1 --extra-lsndir=xtralsn
[baron@ginger 5.1.41]$ rm -rf backup1
[baron@ginger 5.1.41]$ xtrabackup --datadir=data --backup --target-dir=incremental1 --incremental-basedir=xtralsn

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