[mylvmbackup] mylvmbackup 0.6 has been released

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Hi,

Version 0.6 of mylvmbackup, a script to perform backups of a MySQL
server using Linux LVM snapshots, has now been released.

In addition to various code cleanups and documentation improvements,
many new features have been added to this version. I'd like to specially
thank Robin H. Johnson from the Gentoo project for contributing many of
the improvements to this release!

 - Added a new rsync backup type. This is very useful if you want to use
   mylvmbackup to create the initial state for your slave servers.
   Instead of creating a .tar.gz archive, the data directory is copied
   into a timestamped archive directory. (Robin)
 - Added support for a trailing argument to tar, which can be used for
   excluding files. (Robin)
 - Separated out the suffix of the tarball (Preperation for rsync and
   users that want to use bzip2 or no compression on the tarball.)
   (Robin)
 - While the backup is performed, a temporary suffix at the end of the
   tar backup file name (or the rsync target directory name) now
   indicates that it is incomplete. (Robin)
 - The my.cnf configuration file is now included in the backup. (Robin)
 - Added the ability to run an extra FLUSH TABLES on busy databases
   where lvcreate might take a long time (and may overrun the
   interactivity timeout on the connection, losing the lock). (Robin)
 - Added option "--pidfile" to provide an alternative PID file location
   for the second server instance that is started to perform the InnoDB
   recovery on the snapshot prior to backing it up (Otherwise it may
   default to using the same pid file location that the running server
   uses and safe_mysqld will abort) - thanks to Kristian Köhntopp for
   making me aware of this problem.
 - Before discarding the snapshot LV, the output of "lvs <snapshot>" is
   now printed out for diagnostics. It contains useful information like
   "how much percent of the backing store was used", which helps tuning
   the size of the snapshot LV.
 - Added option "--skip-flush-tables" that performs the snapshot without
   flushing the tables to disk beforehand (which is not supported by
   InnoDB tables anyway) - this would save time, as the flushing can
   take a while, depending on the buffer sizes. (Thanks to Peter Zaitsev
   for the suggestion)

Version 0.6 is now available for download from
http://www.lenzg.org/mylvmbackup/ (source tarball and RPM). I also
provide RPM packagages for a number of additional platforms via my
home:LenzGr repository
(http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/LenzGr/) on the
fabolous openSUSE Build Service: https://build.opensuse.org/

Enjoy! Feedback, patches and suggestions are welcome - please consider
joining the mailing list at http://www.freelists.org/list/mylvmbackup to
discuss your experiences with this tool.

Bye,
        LenZ
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