FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.4 has been released

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.4 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 2.2.4

shell> cd ${HOME}/product
shell> tar xf /download/brman-2.2.4.tar.gz
shell> rm -f brman
shell> ln -s brman-2.2.4 brman

Changes in FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager 2.2.4

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 and 2.1 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

• Redhat 8 RPM package added to FromDual repository.
• Stripped unnecessary files from tarball.
• From now on we fully support MySQL 5.7 to 8.0.
• From now on we fully support PHP 8.
• From now on we fully support MariaDB 10.3 to 10.6.
• All old PHP 5 stuff was removed.
• Library from myEnv updated.
• Distribution distinguishing code was cleaned-up and Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and CloudLinux should pass checks correctly now.

FromDual Backup Manager

• Schema backup was not ignoring SYS schema when doing test for non-transactional (Aria) tables. This test is done correct now.

FromDual Recovery Manager

• Restore return code and restore time hook added for integration into fpmmm monitoring. Automated restore tests are better supported now.

FromDual brman Catalog

• none

FromDual brman Data masking / data obfuscating

• none

Testing

• All tests passed for MySQL 8.0.
• All tests passed with PHP 8.
• Various tests added.
• All tests passed for MariaDB 10.6.

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