Preparing the Incremental Backups with Log Archiving for XtraDB creates the ib_logfiles

[Hrvoje Matijakovic]

Preparing the Incremental Backups with Log Archiving for XtraDB creates the ib_logfiles

Backup dir before running the prepare command:
root@trusty:/var/lib/mysql# ls -lah /tmp/backup2/
total 180M
drwx------ 8 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 .
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root root 387 Oct 12 14:22 backup-my.cnf
-rw-r----- 1 root root 76M Oct 12 14:21 ibdata1
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 imdb
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 mysql
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 performance_schema
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 test
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 world
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 world2
-rw-r----- 1 root root 117 Oct 12 14:22 xtrabackup_checkpoints
-rw-r----- 1 root root 434 Oct 12 14:22 xtrabackup_info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 104M Oct 12 14:22 xtrabackup_logfile

And after running: xtrabackup --prepare --target-dir=/tmp/backup2/ --innodb-log-arch-dir=/var/lib/mysql/

root@trusty:/var/lib/mysql# ls -lah /tmp/backup2/
total 276M
drwx------ 8 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:24 .
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:25 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root root 387 Oct 12 14:22 backup-my.cnf
-rw-r----- 1 root root 76M Oct 12 14:24 ibdata1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48M Oct 12 14:24 ib_logfile0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48M Oct 12 14:24 ib_logfile1
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:24 imdb
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 mysql
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 performance_schema
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 test
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 world
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Oct 12 14:22 world2
-rw-r----- 1 root root 115 Oct 12 14:24 xtrabackup_checkpoints
-rw-r----- 1 root root 434 Oct 12 14:22 xtrabackup_info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 104M Oct 12 14:22 xtrabackup_logfile

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXB-1407