Tuesday, June 19, 2012

MEB: Taking Incremental Backup using last successful backup

Published another post on MySQL Enterprise Backup at Oracle blogs today.

A new prefix 'history:' has been introduced for the –incremental-base option and currently the only permissible value is the string "last_backup". So using the new option an incremental backup can be taken with the following command:
$ mysqlbackup --incremental --incremental-backup-dir=/media/mysqlbackup-repo/ --incremental-base=history:last_backup backup
Read more here: https://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/meb