Xtrabackup 1.9 beta makes a full backup when streaming and and incremental flags are set

[navigator93]

When making an incremental backup using Innobackupex, I used the following command:

innobackupex --incremental /disk2/backups/incremental/ --extra-lsndir=/disk2/backups/lsn2/ --stream=tar --incremental-basedir=/disk2/backups/lsn/2012-02-08_17-47-09/ | gzip --fast > incremental_beta.tar.gz

However, when looking at the output, it seemed xtrabackup was being passed incorrect parameters:

xtrabackup --backup --suspend-at-end --log-stream --target-dir=./ --extra-lsndir='/disk2/backups/lsn2/' --incremental-basedir='/disk2/backups/lsn/2012-02-08_17-47-09/'

and it was clear based on how long the 'backup' was taking and the sized of the streamed file that this was a full snapshot not a delta

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Yes, streaming incremental backups are not supported in 1.6. It's going to be fixed in 2.0, see: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+spec/streaming-incremental

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Sorry, didn't notice 1.9 mentioned in the summary. Yes, unfortunately streaming incremental didn't make it into the first 2.0 beta, it's currently scheduled for the next beta release.

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

Parallel compression (and thus, streaming incremental) has been merged to trunk and will be released in 1.9.1. 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-1149