FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.3.1 has been released

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.3.1 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

The new FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager can be downloaded from here. The FromDual Repositories were updated. How to install and use the Backup and Recovery Manager is described in FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) installation guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager please report it to the FromDual Bugtracker or just send us an email.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to feedback@fromdual.com.

Upgrade from 2.x to 2.3.1

shell> cd ${HOME}/product
shell> tar xf /download/brman-2.3.1.tar.gz
shell> rm -f brman
shell> ln -s brman-2.3.1 brman

Changes in FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager 2.3.1

This release is a new minor release. It contains mainly bug fixes. We have tried to maintain backward-compatibility with the 1.2, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 release series. But you should test the new release seriously!

You can verify your current FromDual Backup Manager version with the following command:

shell> fromdual_bman --version
shell> bman --version
shell> rman --version

General

• Testing: LXC library updated.
• Testing: Test preparation improved.
• General: CHANGELOG updated.
• General: rc made unique.
• Documentation: Documentation improved.
• Documentation: Create user documented.
• Documentation: New release notes added to documentation.
• Packaging: Distro Debian 10 removed.

FromDual Backup Manager (bman)

• Utility mariabackup replaced by mariadb-backup.
• Branch guessing improved.
• Code refactored.
• No realistic password is used any more.
• Error message for missing client utilities made more distro specific.

FromDual Recovery Manager (rman)

• Branch guessing improved.
• Code refactored.
• No realistic password is used any more.
• Error message for missing client utilities made more distro specific.
• Typo error fixed, tests refactored.
• In some error cases all processes were killed instead of just the dummy database daemon. This is caught correctly now.
• Error message improved to get more information in case of errors.
• Physical schema backup leads to dump which is wrong. Now this is caught and aborted with an error.

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