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MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0.17 has been released
Posted by: Balasubramanian Kandasamy
Date: July 22, 2019 03:10AM


Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0.17, a new version of the online MySQL backup
tool, is now available for download from the My Oracle Support (MOS) website
as our latest GA release. This release will be available on eDelivery (OSDC)
after the next upload cycle. MySQL Enterprise Backup is a commercial
extension to the MySQL family of products.
 
MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0.17 supports only the MySQL Server 8.0.17.
For earlier versions of MySQL 8.0, use the MySQL Enterprise Backup
version with the same version number as the server. For MySQL server
5.7, please use MySQL Enterprise Backup 4.1, and for MySQL Server 5.6
and 5.5, please use MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.12.
 
A brief summary of the changes in MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB)
version 8.0.17 is given below.

Changes in MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0.17 (2019-07-22, General
Availability)

     * Functionality Added or Changed

     * Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Before the current release, when backing up a server that
       used the keyring_okv
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/keyring-okv-plugin.html)
       plugin for InnoDB table encryption, mysqlbackup
       must not be run by a sudo user of its operating system.
       This restriction has now been removed. (Bug #29020232)

     * The --datadir option is no longer required for restoring
       a TTS backup
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/8.0/en/restore-use-tts.html).
       If the option is specified and
       its value does not match with that of the target server,
       the restore will be aborted. (Bug #28546760)

     * The --incremental-base option now accepts a new value,
       history:last_full_backup, which makes it easy to create a
       differential backup
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/8.0/en/glossary.html#glos_differential_backup).
       See the description of --incremental-base for details.

     * To avoid mysqlbackup failing to catch up with the growing
       redo log during a backup operation and missing redo log
       data, mysqlbackup now utilizes redo log archiving
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-redo-log.html#innodb-redo-log-archiving),
       a new feature available on MySQL Server 8.0.17. Redo log archiving can be
       disabled using the new mysqlbackup option
       --no-redo-log-archive. See Backing up Using Redo Log Archiving
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/8.0/en/meb-redo-log-archiving.html)
       for details.

     * mysqlbackup now supports encrypted InnoDB redo logs
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-tablespace-encryption.html#innodb-tablespace-encryption-redo-log).
       The encrypted redo tablespaces are handled the same way
       as the encrypted tablespaces for InnoDB tables. See
       Working with Encrypted InnoDB Tablespaces
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/8.0/en/meb-encrypted-innodb.html)
       for details.


 Bugs Fixed


     * A backup failed when the value of the server's system
       variable innodb_undo_directory contained in itself the
       file path for the server's data directory. It was due to
       a mishandling of the file path prefix of the undo
       tablespace directory by mysqlbackup, which has been
       corrected by this fix. (Bug #29849566)

     * Restore of an incremental backup failed if its base full
       backup had been restored with the --skip-binlog option.
       (Bug #29757701)

     * If a relative path was used with the
       backup_innodb_data_home_dir option when backing up a
       server, the whole directory specified by the option was
       being copied into the target server's data directory
       during a restore of the backup. Not only was that not the
       expected behavior of mysqlbackup, but it also made
       subsequent backups of the server failed when the same
       argument for backup_innodb_data_home_dir was used again.
       (Bug #29613025)

     * When the binary log on the server was more than one level
       below the data directory on the directory tree,
       mysqlbackup failed to copy the binary log into a backup.
       This was due to an error on parsing the path of the
       binary log directory, which has been corrected by this
       fix. (Bug #29710251)

     * During a backup operation, when a table or database name
       contains a slash (/), mysqlbackup always treated the
       corresponding tablespace as an external tablespace; if
       that was not actually the case, restore for the backup
       was going to fail. With this fix, mysqlbackup checks if
       the tablespace is really external and then handles it
       appropriately. (Bug #29472939)

     * External undo tablespaces were missing after a restore of
       a backup directory extracted from a backup image using
       the image-to-backup-dir command. It was because of the
       mishandling of the tracker file for external tablespaces
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/8.0/en/meb-files-backed-up-summary.html#meb_file_tablespace-tracker)
       by the image-to-backup-dir command, which has been
       corrected by this fix. (Bug #29401027)

     * While no upgrade path exists between MySQL Enterprise
       Backup 4.1 and 8.0, an attempt to update the mysqlbackup
       package from release 4.1.3 to 8.0.16 on Ubuntu failed
       with the complaint that the update tried to overwrite the
       installation directory for mysqlbackup. With this fix,
       package conflict information has been added so that at
       the same attempt, the old package is uninstalled (with
       the user's consent) before the new package is installed.
       (Bug #29314267)

     * When using MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0 to back up MySQL
       Server 5.7, an error was thrown, and the error message
       suggested a wrong version of MySQL Enterprise Backup to
       be used for the Server. With this fix, the appropriate
       version of MySQL Enterprise Backup is suggested. (Bug
       #29195233)

     * When backing up a server that used the keyring_okv
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/keyring-okv-plugin.html)
       plugin for InnoDB table encryption, if the
       --host, --user and --port options were not specified with
       the mysqlbackup command via the command line or a
       configuration file, the backup failed. It was because in
       that case, mysqlbackup had no values for those options
       that it could use to connect to the server for keyring
       operations. With this fix, default values are now set, so
       that mysqlbackup connects to the server on localhost as
       root and on port 3306 for keyring operations when those
       options are not specified. (Bug #29015923)

     * A copy-back-and-apply-log operation for a compressed
       backup created using the --backup_innodb_data_home_dir
       option with a relative file path terminated with signal 6.
       (Bug #28967141)

     * mysqlbackup hung during a restore operation when the
       backup contained more than a hundred InnoDB tablespaces.
       (Bug #28884254, Bug #29674585)

     * A restore operation for a compressed backup failed with
       an unexpected end of file error when the backup was
       created using --compress-method=zlib and the
       innodb_page_size was smaller than 16KB. (Bug #28623215)

     * A backup created on an EL7 platform containing InnoDB
       tables encrypted with MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data
       Encryption (TDE) could not be restored to a server on a
       Solaris platform. It was because in this case, the source
       and the target platforms of the backup used different
       byte ordering formats, causing difficulties in loading
       the encryption key from the backup. This fix prevents the
       issue by adding detection and conversion utilities for
       different system architectures. (Bug #28569367)

     * Using the --uncompress option for restoring a backup not
       created with the --compress option caused the operation
       to fail with the error No such file or directory. With
       this fix, the proper error is thrown in the situation.
       (Bug #28334690)

     * A backup failed with the error Log scan was only able to
       reach... when there was a large amount of DML activities
       occurring in parallel on the server that was being backed
       up. (Bug #27555969)

     * During the InnoDB buffer pool dump in a backup operation,
       mysqlbackup sometimes reported failure for the dump while
       it was actually still in progress. The fix prevents the
       problem by improving the way mysqlbackup checks for the
       status of the dump. (Bug #27185901)
  


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