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Which type of backup and restore for percona XtraBackup and restore?
Note that xtrabackup backs up only the InnoDB data. You must separately restore the MySQL system database, MyISAM data, table definition files (. frm files), and everything else necessary to make your database functional – or innobackupex can do it for you.
How do I backup a MySQL routine?
Backup Stored Procedures and Routines
- mysqldump -u root -p –routines mydb > mydb.sql.
- mysqldump –routines –no-create-info –no-data –no-create-db –skip-opt mydb > mydb.sql.
- mysql -u root -p mydb < mydb.sql.
How do I restore percona XtraBackup?
Restoring a Backup
- $ xtrabackup –copy-back –target-dir=/data/backups/ If you don’t want to save your backup, you can use the xtrabackup –move-back option which will move the backed up data to the datadir.
- $ rsync -avrP /data/backup/ /var/lib/mysql/
- $ chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql.
How does percona XtraBackup work?
XtraBackup works by remembering the log sequence number (LSN) when it starts, and then copying away the data files. During this step, XtraBackup performs crash recovery against the copied data files, using the copied transaction log file. After this is done, the database is ready to restore and use.
How do I use percona XtraBackup?
Set up your environment
- Install Percona XtraBackup.
- Set up a Google Cloud project and install the Cloud SDK.
- Create backup user accounts.
- Prepare your environment.
- Perform a full backup.
- Perform an incremental backup.
- Upload your backups to Cloud Storage.
- Set up automatic file pruning in Cloud Storage.
Does Mysqldump backup stored procedures?
mysqldump will backup by default all the triggers but NOT the stored procedures/functions.
How do I uncompress Xtrabackup?
Percona XtraBackup has implemented –decompress option that can be used to decompress the backup.
- $ xtrabackup –decompress –target-dir=/data/compressed/
- $ xtrabackup –prepare –target-dir=/data/compressed/
- InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
Is percona Xtrabackup free?
Percona XtraBackup is a free, online, open source, complete database backups solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®.
Which is the latest version of Percona xtrabackup?
For example, if one has a backup of MySQL 5.0 created with Percona XtraBackup 1.6, then preparing the backup with Percona XtraBackup 2.3 is not supported, because support for MySQL 5.0 was removed in Percona XtraBackup 2.1. Instead, the latest release in the 2.0 series should be used.
Where do I put my InnoDB backups in Percona?
You also need to specify a xtrabackup –target-dir option, which is where the backup will be stored, if the InnoDB data or log files aren’t stored in the same directory, you might need to specify the location of those, too. If the target directory does not exist, xtrabackup creates it.
How does the backup cycle work in Percona?
During the backup process, you should see a lot of output showing the data files being copied, as well as the log file thread repeatedly scanning the log files and copying from it. Here is an example that shows the log thread scanning the log in the background, and a file copying thread working on the ibdata1 file:
How does xtrabackup binary move data back to datadir?
For convenience xtrabackup binary has an xtrabackup –copy-back option, which will copy the backup to the server’s datadir: If you don’t want to save your backup, you can use the xtrabackup –move-back option which will move the backed up data to the datadir.