xtrabackup to support MySQL 5.6

[Vadim Tkachenko]

XtraBackup right now does not support MySQL 5.6, as function
set_xtrabackup_version does not have corresponding check.
How to fix:
add
if($var_version =~ m/5\.6\.\d/){
        $ibbackup_binary = ($win eq 1 ? 'xtrabackup.exe' : 'xtrabackup_55');
}

to innobackupex, function set_xtrabackup_version

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

There's also https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+spec/mysql-56-support (which is rather an umbrella BP for adding version detection, test suite/Jenkins support and testing).

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Bug #968449 was marked as a duplicate of this one.

[Stewart Smith (stewart)]

Alexey Kopytov <email address hidden> writes:
> There's also https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-
> xtrabackup/+spec/mysql-56-support (which is rather an umbrella BP for
> adding version detection, test suite/Jenkins support and testing).

When we add 5.6, what versions do we stop supporting?

My votes would be 5.0 and 5.1 builtin.

--
Stewart Smith

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

On 08.10.12, 4:34, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Alexey Kopytov <email address hidden> writes:
>> There's also https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-
>> xtrabackup/+spec/mysql-56-support (which is rather an umbrella BP for
>> adding version detection, test suite/Jenkins support and testing).
>
> When we add 5.6, what versions do we stop supporting?
>
> My votes would be 5.0 and 5.1 builtin.
>

Agree, 5.0/5.1-builtin are the first candidates to become unsupported.

[Henk Jan Agteresch (hjagteresch)]

Mysql 5.1 is still very widely used.

eg Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 (LTS edition, supported until 2015) comes with Mysql 5.1. Lots of people use the the default distro-provided mysql.

Please consider supporting 5.1 for a longer time.

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Henk,

Only 5.1 with built-in InnoDB version will not be supported. There are no plans to drop support for 5.1 with InnoDB plugin.

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Basic support (including the version check) was implemented in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+spec/basic-56-support and will be released in XtraBackup 2.0.6.

Full support is targeted to XtraBackup 2.0.7 in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+spec/mysql-56-support

Not sure about the correct status of this report. But since it only mentioned the version check, marking as Fix Released.

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-344