Things have been moving along well in the world of Xtrabackup Manager.
In the last week I managed to fix a some bugs and overcome a number of implementation issues. Most notably the internals have been re-factored significantly and now make use of PHP Exceptions.
You probably don't care about the re-factoring all that much if all you want to do is use the tool, but rest assured that it makes development easier, which in turn is going to be better for users!
Aside from the refactoring and probably more interesting -- I added the functionality to be able to perform a local restore any backup snapshot.
If you are using the standard "rolling incremental" backup method, then this means Xtrabackup Manager would first take a FULL backup of your target MySQL host and following that it would take incrementals.
With Xtrabackup Manager you have the ability to set a snapshot retention policy and it is based on the count of snapshots to retain. For example, if you have scheduled backups to be at 11PM daily with a snapshot retention of 7, then you will, at most, keep snapshots for 7 days.
Once Xtrabackup Manager successfully takes the 8th backup, it will collapse the oldest set of incremental deltas by applying/merging them into the full backup snapshot.
Using the new local restore tool you can restore any snapshot with a simple command like:
shell> xbm-restore -s 17 -l /path/to/restore/to
This will restore backup snapshot ID 17 to local path /path/to/restore/to
It works by first copying the full snapshot for the relevant host -- we call this the SEED -- and then periodically applying each set of incremental deltas needed to effectively "roll forward" to the snapshot that you specified in the command.
So far this seems to work fairly well.
In addition to the local restore tool, I have received a patch to aid in managing your host configurations - it allows you to export everything to CSVs that can be more easily edited in something like Excel or OpenOffice, make a bunch of changes and then reimport over the top.
It is important to note that this is just one of _many_ ways that one will be able to manage their Xtrabackup Manager configuration.
I am still looking to add a nifty web interface in the future.... which leads me into reminding everyone and anyone that I am looking for contributors for the project!
MySQL, Linux, PHP and Web/UI experienced folks would be greatly appreciated!
Check out the project on Google Code for more info:
http://code.google.com/p/xtrabackup-manager/
Cheers!
Lachlan
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