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This section describes information related to compatibility issues for MySQL Enterprise Backup releases.
MySQL Enterprise Backup is cross-platform compatible when running
on the Linux and Windows operating systems: backups on a Linux
machine can be restored on a Windows machine, and vice versa.
However, to avoid data transfer problems arising from letter cases
of database or table names, the variable
lower_case_table_names must be
properly configured on the MySQL servers. For details, see
Identifier Case Sensitivity.
MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.11 supports all the MySQL server versions that are currently in the General Availability (GA) status (that is, MySQL 5.5 and 5.6).
MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.11 can be used to restore the following kinds of backups created by earlier versions of the product:
Backups created for MySQL 5.5 by MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.5 to 3.10.
Backups created for MySQL 5.6 by MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.8 to 3.10.
For any restore that involves a server upgrade or downgrade, see the important discussion in Section 4.5, “Restoring a Backup with a Database Upgrade or Downgrade”
This section lists any performance-related features and settings in specific MySQL Server versions that affect various aspects of the backup process.
Some new MySQL 5.6 features introduce changes in directory layout and file contents for InnoDB tables. Backing up servers that use these features requires MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.8.1 or higher:
innodb_page_size
configuration option.
innodb_undo_directory,
innodb_undo_logs, and
innodb_undo_tablespaces
configuration options.
innodb_checksum_algorithm
configuration option.
DATA DIRECTORY clause of the
CREATE TABLE statement, which
produces a .isl file in
the database directory and stores the
.ibd file in a
user-specified location.
See MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.9 Release Notes for details on the fixes and enhancements related to these MySQL 5.6 features.