Documentation for --redo-only / --apply-log-only should be clarified for multiple incremental backups

Bug #1071146 reported by Alexey Kopytov
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Percona XtraBackup moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PXB
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Medium
Hrvoje Matijakovic

Bug Description

When merging multiple incremental backups to a base backup, the --redo-only option should be used when preparing the base full backup and when merging all incrementals except the last one. However, our documentation is not clear about that.

Likewise for the --apply-log-only option in xtrabackup.

Tags: doc

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Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem)
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Vadim Tkachenko (vadim-tk) wrote :

Actually it should be safe to use --redo-only for full backup.
In this case mysqld will perform rollback phase.

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Alexey Kopytov (akopytov) wrote :

So should we just say that all incremental backups should be applied with --reado-only, even if technically it my be omitted on the last step?

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Vadim Tkachenko (vadim-tk) wrote :

We should describe both options in the documentation.
It will be user decision what kind of schema to use.

Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Stewart Smith (stewart)
Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
tags: added: doc
Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
status: Triaged → In Progress
description: updated
Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Stewart Smith (stewart)
Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote :

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-602

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