Comment 4 for bug 782850

I am not sure about no-op, but just being able to repeat the same procedure.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Stewart Smith <email address hidden> wrote:
> So this is just a feature request to be able to apply the incremental
> backups to the same full backup repeatedly (essentially making it a no-
> op as they're already applied)?.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782850
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> Title:
>  incremental's xtrabackup_logfile is not reusable after applying log
>
> Status in Percona XtraBackup:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  After we apply log from incremental changes - xtrabackup_logfile's
>  content changes and data from incremental dir cannot be used for
>  prepare again.
>
>  It could be a nice feature if the contents is not changed - it will
>  allow to use incremental-dir for applying logs t full backup several
>  times.
>

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