FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.1.0 has been released

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.1.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

The new FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager can be downloaded from here. How to install and use the Backup and Recovery Manager is describe 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 1.2.x to 2.1.0

brman 2.1.0 requires a new PHP package for ssh connections.

shell> sudo apt-get install php-ssh2

shell> cd ${HOME}/product
shell> tar xf /download/brman-2.1.0.tar.gz
shell> rm -f brman
shell> ln -s brman-2.1.0 brman

Changes in FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager 2.1.0

This release is a new major release series. It contains a lot of new features. We have tried to maintain backward-compatibility with the 1.2 and 2.0 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

FromDual Backup Manager

• Usage (--help) updated.
• Some WARN severities downgraded to INFO to keep mail output clean.
• Error messages made more flexible and fixed PHP library advice.
• Split some redundant code from bman library into brman library.
• Security fix: Password from config file is hidden now.
• Bug on simulation of physical backup fixed (xtrabackup_binlog_info not found).
• Options --backup-name and --backup-overwrite introduced for restore automation.
• Minor typo bugs fixed.
• Option --options remove.
• Sort order for schema backup changed to ORDER BY ASC.
• 2 PHP errors fixed for simulation.
• Maskerade API added.
• Physical backup sftp archiving with special characters (+foodmarat) in archive directory name fixed.

FromDual Recovery Manager

• Rman has progress report.
• Full logical restore is implemented.
• Schema logical restore is implemented.
• Physical restore is implemented.
• Physical restore of compressed backups is implemented.
• Option --cleanup-first was implemented for physical backup as well.
• Option: --stop-instance implemented.

FromDual Backup Manager Catalog

• No changes.

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