NetVault Plug-in for MySQL 13.2 - Release Notes

Because backup data is streamed from the MySQL Server directly to the NetVault Backup Media Manager, use of special characters in database names might be interpreted as a sequence command, which affects the integrity of the backup data.

Workaround: To avoid potential issues, do not use the following characters in database names: $ ^ = @ # % +

DNMYSQL-379

DNMYSQL-461

In MySQL replication environments, backup job fails if the master info log or relay info log are written to tables instead of files.

Workaround: To prevent a backup job failure, create empty master.info and relay-log.info files in the index log path directory. To create the empty logs, run the following commands under mysql user:

$ touch /var/lib/mysql/relay-log.info

$ touch /var/lib/mysql/master.info

DNMYSQL-439

DNMYSQL-478

Due to a difference in required libraries, NetVault Plug‑in for MySQL may not run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0.

Workaround: If libnsl.so.1 does not exist, create a symbolic link to libnsl.so.2 using the following commands for 64-bit libnsl.so:

DNMYSQL-442

DNMYSQL-497

An error NetVault.Backup.Core.NVObjectDeserializeException occurs when attempting to open large binary log context containing snippet of mysqldump output.

DNMYSQL-456

When you start restoring, restoring a view, routine, trigger, event, procedure, etc. might fail, if participating tables (and views) have not yet restored.

DNMYSQL-464

While setting up Plug-in for MySQL it is required that the NetVault Server and NetVault Client are set with the same locale.

DNMYSQL-479

Plug-in for MySQL does not support the UTF8MB4 Character Set.

DNMYSQL-496

Selecting Enable MySQL Replication but not configuring replication causes backups to fail: If you select the Enable MySQL Replication check box on the Configure dialog box but do not configure replication, backups fail. To correct this issue, either clear the Enable MySQL Replication check box on the Configure dialog box or set up replication and run the backup job again.

DNMYSQL-241 (21629)

Lock & Copy Table Files backup method for MyISAM Backup Method, does not work for MySQL 8 onward, as the plug-in attempts to access .from the metadata files that are no longer present in MySQL 8.x

DNMYSQL-475

Under certain conditions, all InnoDB tables are backed up: All InnoDB tables in a MySQL instance are backed up if either of the following conditions is met:

This behavior reflects current MEB (mysqlbackup utility) behavior, which might change in a future release (post-3.8.1).

DNMYSQL-275 (22383)

The plug-in does not support use of the MEB-based method in a clustered environment. You can only use the MEB-based method in a standalone environment.

DNMYSQL-363 (32199)