Comment 5 for bug 782850

Stewart,

I think the bug description is consuming making it as non issue, While I
think it is really serious design issue.

The problem is the incremental backup itself is modified and can't be reused
again for other restore. This requires
extra copy operation which is not efficient.

We do need to do the copy for non-incremental backup to put it back in place
but it would be good we could essentially
apply incremental backup from read only NFS volume, where they can be
re-used to restore data to multiple slaves for example

Vadim is my understanding correct ?

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Stewart Smith <email address hidden>wrote:

> So this is just a feature request to be able to apply the incremental
> backups to the same full backup repeatedly (essentially making it a no-
> op as they're already applied)?.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782850
>
> Title:
> incremental's xtrabackup_logfile is not reusable after applying log
>
> Status in Percona XtraBackup:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> After we apply log from incremental changes - xtrabackup_logfile's
> content changes and data from incremental dir cannot be used for
> prepare again.
>
> It could be a nice feature if the contents is not changed - it will
> allow to use incremental-dir for applying logs t full backup several
> times.
>

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