Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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None
Description
Hi folks,
would it be possible to implement a way to use reflink for mariabackup on filesystems which support it like btrfs and xfs?
The benefit of this woud be that, on systems where the database is installed on a filesystem with reflink-support, the backup could be done within parts of a second without the need of additional space no matter how big the database is (and if the backup-destination is on the same filesystem). On systems where the local backup is only used temporarily until it gets uploaded to a backup-store this is absolutely fine and can save a lot of I/O and time.
You can even use this to "clone" a database e.g. for testing purpouse without the need of additional space (backup a single db and restore it with a different name using cp --reflink during restore)
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Issue Links
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MDEV-14992 BACKUP: in-server backup
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MDEV-34850 Unable to create backup with mariabackup: try increasing innodb_log_file_size
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