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How to force InnoDB Buffer Pool flushing

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:38:36 +0000

InnoDB tries to keep pages in Buffer Pool to be fast. If a page is changed by a DML statement (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) this change will be done in InnoDB Buffer Pool and not directly on disk. But those changed InnoDB pages residing in InnoDB Buffer Pool must be flushed sooner or later to disk to become persistent. This is done by the InnoDB background writer thread(s) (default 4).

MySQL Enterprise Backup Support Matrix

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:23 +0000

MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) is a bit limited related to support of older MySQL versions. So you should consider the following release matrix:

MySQL Enterprise Incremental Backup simplified

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:41:17 +0000

MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) has the capability to make real incremental (differential and cumulative?) backups. The actual releases are quite cool and you should really look at it…