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Do Incremental Backups Without Full Copy

Registered by Baron Schwartz

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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Complete
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Direction:
Needs approval
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Definition:
New
Series goal:
Accepted for 1.6
Implementation:
Implemented
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Started by
Alexey Kopytov
Completed by
Alexey Kopytov

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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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