The
MySQL Enterprise
Backup (MEB) Team is pleased to announce the release of
MEB 3.7.1, a maintenance release version that includes bug fixes and enhancements to some of the existing features. The most important feature introduced in this release is Automatic Incremental
Backup. The new argument syntax for the --incremental-base option is introduced which makes it simpler to perform automatic incremental backups. When the options --incremental & --incremental-base=history:last_backup are combined, the mysqlbackup command uses the metadata in the
mysql.backup_history table to determine the LSN to use as the lower limit of the incremental
backup. You no longer need to keep track of the actual LSN (as in the option --start-lsn=LSN) or even the location of the previous
backup (as in the option --incremental-base=dir:directory_path)This release also incudes various bug fixes related to some options used in
MEB. The most important are few of them as listed below,1. The option --force now allows overwriting
InnoDB data and log files in combination with the apply-log and apply-incremental-backup options, and replacing the image file in combination with the backup-to-image and backup-dir-to-image options. 2. Resolved a bug that prevented
MEB to interface with third-party storage managers to execute
backup and
restore jobs in combination with the SBT interface and associated --sbt* options for mysqlbackup. 3. When
MEB is run with the copy-back option, it now displays warnings as existing files are overwritten.For more information about other bug fixes, please refer to the change-log in http://dev.
mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/3.7/en/meb-news.html The complete
MEB documentation is located at http://dev.
mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/3.7/en/index.html. You will find the binaries for the new release in My Oracle Support, https://support.oracle.comChoose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then use the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" feature. If you haven't looked at
MEB 3.7.1 recently, please do so now and let us know how
MEB works for you. Send your feedback to
[email protected].