Mariabackup 10.2.7 would delete the redo log files after a successful
--prepare operation. If the user is manually copying the prepared files
instead of using the --copy-back option, it could happen that some old
redo log file would be preserved in the restored location. These old
redo log files could cause corruption of the restored data files when
the server is started up.
We prevent this scenario by creating a "poisoned" redo log file
ib_logfile0 at the end of the --prepare step. The poisoning consists
of simply truncating the file to an empty file. InnoDB will refuse
to start up on an empty redo log file.
copy_back(): Delete all redo log files in the target if the source
file ib_logfile0 is empty. (Previously we did this if the source
file is missing.)
SRV_OPERATION_RESTORE_EXPORT: A new variant of SRV_OPERATION_RESTORE
when the --export option is specified. In this mode, we will keep
deleting all redo log files, instead of truncating the first one.
delete_log_files(): Add a parameter for the first file to delete,
to be passed as 0 or 1.
innobase_start_or_create_for_mysql(): In mariabackup --prepare,
tolerate an empty ib_logfile0 file. Otherwise, require the first
redo log file to be longer than 4 blocks (2048 bytes). Unless
--export was specified, truncate the first log file at the
end of --prepare.
InnoDB I/O and buffer pool interfaces and the redo log format
have been changed between MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2, and the backup
code has to be adjusted accordingly.
The code has been simplified, and many memory leaks have been fixed.
Instead of the file name xtrabackup_logfile, the file name ib_logfile0
is being used for the copy of the redo log. Unnecessary InnoDB startup and
shutdown and some unnecessary threads have been removed.
Some help was provided by Vladislav Vaintroub.
Parameters have been cleaned up and aligned with those of MariaDB 10.2.
The --dbug option has been added, so that in debug builds,
--dbug=d,ib_log can be specified to enable diagnostic messages
for processing redo log entries.
By default, innodb_doublewrite=OFF, so that --prepare works faster.
If more crash-safety for --prepare is needed, double buffering
can be enabled.
The parameter innodb_log_checksums=OFF can be used to ignore redo log
checksums in --backup.
Some messages have been cleaned up.
Unless --export is specified, Mariabackup will not deal with undo log.
The InnoDB mini-transaction redo log is not only about user-level
transactions; it is actually about mini-transactions. To avoid confusion,
call it the redo log, not transaction log.
We disable any undo log processing in --prepare.
Because MariaDB 10.2 supports indexed virtual columns, the
undo log processing would need to be able to evaluate virtual column
expressions. To reduce the amount of code dependencies, we will not
process any undo log in prepare.
This means that the --export option must be disabled for now.
This also means that the following options are redundant
and have been removed:
xtrabackup --apply-log-only
innobackupex --redo-only
In addition to disabling any undo log processing, we will disable any
further changes to data pages during --prepare, including the change
buffer merge. This means that restoring incremental backups should
reliably work even when change buffering is being used on the server.
Because of this, preparing a backup will not generate any further
redo log, and the redo log file can be safely deleted. (If the
--export option is enabled in the future, it must generate redo log
when processing undo logs and buffered changes.)
In --prepare, we cannot easily know if a partial backup was used,
especially when restoring a series of incremental backups. So, we
simply warn about any missing files, and ignore the redo log for them.
FIXME: Enable the --export option.
FIXME: Improve the handling of the MLOG_INDEX_LOAD record, and write
a test that initiates a backup while an ALGORITHM=INPLACE operation
is creating indexes or rebuilding a table. An error should be detected
when preparing the backup.
FIXME: In --incremental --prepare, xtrabackup_apply_delta() should
ensure that if FSP_SIZE is modified, the file size will be adjusted
accordingly.
The option was basically duplicating InnoDB functionality.
Persistent statistics can be accessed via the tables
mysql.innodb_table_stats and mysql.innodb_index_stats.
