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Implement BACKUP STAGE for safe external backups

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      The purpose of this task is to ensure that mariabackup will be able to copy
      any table from a local disk-based storage engine with a minimum of server performance
      impact and minimum of locks. Main data for transactional tables will be copied
      without any locks. Non transactional tables will be copied under a lock, but with
      less waiting than the current FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK.

      Instead of using FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK in mariabackup
      introduce a new "BACKUP LOCK" that will not flush (ie close) InnoDB
      tables and only block InnoDB commits, new DDL's and the final rename
      that is part of ALTER TABLE.

      • Taking the BACKUP LOCK's should be “instant” in almost all cases (when
        using InnoDB or other crash safe storage handlers) as it has only to
        wait for the transaction at commit stage to complete.
      • BACKUP LOCK's shouldn't have to wait for running transactions that are using
        InnoDB. ALTER TABLE'S that are running will also not block BACKUP
        LOCK's.
      • At the last stage writing to the binlog and new commits should be blocked.
      • This lock will also solve the problem with MDEV-15636 (killing
        running queries that conflicts with FLUSH) as the backup locks will
        not conflict with other DDL locks.
      • Log tables (general log and slow log) and statistics tables should
        not be locked until the last stage (BLOCK COMMIT), but we would need a separate phase
        to lock and copy log tables in the last copy phase to ensure the
        tables are consistent.
      • Percona backup locks doesn't block any SELECT. This will cause
        backed up MyISAM and Aria tables to be regarded as not closed. If we
        do the same, we should as part of backup run aria_check --fast
        --update-state and myisamchk --fast --update-state on all myisam and
        Aria files.
        https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/03/11/introducing-backup-locks-percona-server-2/.
        The proposed solution will not have this problem.

      With the above in mind, here is a detailed description of how the BACKUP STAGE's
      should work:

      • Introduce a new "log changed tables" service that will log all DDL's
        on tables: CREATE, RENAME, DROP, TRUNCATE, ALTER. This is needed to be
        able to detect DDL's done during the backup for all storage engine
        during phase BLOCK_COMMIT. The current mariabackup can only detect DDL's for
        InnoDB that are stored in the redo log, not DDL on any other type of tables.
        The current idea is to create a file in mariadb_data/backup_ddl.log
      • In the following text, transactional means InnoDB or "InnoDB-like
        engine with redo log that can lock redo purges and can be copied
        without locks by an outside process".
      • MyRocs is "non-transactional" in this context copied in the stage BLOCK COMMIT.
      • During the backup, any files with a prefix of "#sql-" should be ignored.

      BACKUP STAGE START

      • Start service to log changed tables.
      • Block purge of redo files (needed at least for Aria, not needed for
        InnoDB as InnoDB redo logs are created at startup). Requires new
        handler call.
      • Make a checkpoint for all transactional tables (to speed up recovery of
        backup). Requires new handler call. Note that the checkpoint is not critical,
        just a minor optimization.
      • Both of the above can be done with a 'prepare_for_backup()' handler call.

      mariabackup can now copy all transactional tables and aria_log_control, aria_log.# and
      other engines redo logs.
      Next stage is to be done after all copying is done.

      BACKUP STAGE FLUSH

      • FLUSH all changes for not active non transactional tables, except for statistics and log
        tables. Close the all tables that are not in use, to ensure they are marked as closed for
        the backup. One can get a list of all in use tables with "SHOW OPEN TABLES".
      • BLOCK all new write row locks for all non transactional tables
        (except statistics and log tables)
      • Mark all active non transactional tables (except statistics and log
        tables) to be flushed and closed at end of statement. When last
        instance of a table is flushed (and the table is marked as read only
        by all users, we should call handler->extra(EXTRA_MARK_CLOSED). This
        is needed to handle the case that someone opens a tables as read only
        while the table is still in use, in which case the table would never
        have been closed by everyone.
      • DDL's doesn't have to be blocked yet at this stage as they can't set the table in a
        non consistent state. CREATE ... SELECT may be blocked, will know more when
        doing the actual implementation.

      Next lock can be taken directly after this lock. While waiting for the
      next lock mariabackup can start copying all non transactional tables that are
      not in use. This list of used tables can be found in information schema with
      "SHOW OPEN TABLES".
      mariabackup can also copy all new changes to the aria_log.# tables.

      BACKUP STAGE BLOCK_DDL

      • Wait for all statements using write locked non-transactional tables to end. This should
        be done as we do with FTWRL, which aborts any current locks. This solves the deadlock
        that Sergei commented upon.
      • While waiting it could report to the client non-transactional tables as soon as they
        become unused, so that the client could copy them while waiting for other tables.
      • Block TRUNCATE TABLE, CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE and RENAME TABLE. Block
        also start of a new ALTER TABLE and the final rename phase of ALTER TABLE.
      • Running ALTER TABLES are not blocked.
      • Running Algorithm=INPLACE ALTER TABLE'S should be blocked just before copying is completed.
        This may require a callback from the InnoDB code.

      Next lock can be taken directly after this lock. While waiting for the
      next lock mariabackup tool can start copying:

      • The rest of the non-transactional tables (as found from information schema)
      • All .frm, .trn and other system files,
      • New tables created before BLOCK DDL. The file names can be read from the
        new changed tables service. This log also allow the backup to do renames
        of tables on which RENAME's where done instead of copying them.
      • Copy changes to system log tables (this is easy as these are append only)
      • Copy changes to aria_log.# tables (this is easy as these are append only)
      • If there is a lot of new tables to copy (found be examining the backup ddl log) before going to
        BACKUP STAGE BLOCK_COMMIT, one could do a second loop and copy these before
        going to BLOCK_COMMIT as this would allow DDL's to proceed while copying.

      BACKUP STAGE BLOCK_COMMIT

      • Lock the binary log and commit/rollback to ensure that no changes are
        committed to any tables. If there are active committ's or data to be copied to
        the binary log this will be allowed to finish before the lock is granted.
      • This doesn't lock temporary tables that are not used by replication. However
        these will be blocked when it's time to write to binary log.
      • Lock system log tables and statistics tables and close them.

      When stage BLOCK_COMMITs returns, this is the 'backup time'.
      Everything committed will be in the backup and everything not committed will roll back.
      Transactional engines will continue to do changes to the redo log
      during stage BLOCK COMMIT, but this is not important as all of these will roll
      back later as the changes will not be committed.

      mariabackup can now copy the last changes to the redo files for InnoDB
      and Aria (aria_log.#), and the part of the binary log that was not copied before.
      MyRocks files can also be hard linked
      End of system log tables (slow_log and general_log) and all statistics tables (table_stats, column_stats and index_stats) should also be copied.

      BACKUP STAGE END

      • Unlocks all BACKUP LOCKS
      • Call new handler call 'end_backup()' handler call, which will enable
        purge of redo files.
        After this one can potentially copy the MyRocks files as long as on doesn't
        copy anything new that happened after BACKUP STAGE END.

      Other things:

      • Only one connection can run BACKUP STAGE START. If a second one tries, it will wait until the first one has executed BACKUP STAGE END.
      • If the user skips a BACKUP STAGE, all intermediate backup stages will automatically be run. This will allow us to add new BACKUP STAGE's in the future with even more precise locks without causing problems for tools using an earlier version of BACKUP STAGE's

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