Bug #59090 mysqlbackup fails for incremental backup with large lsn value

• Submitted: 21 Dec 2010 15:25
• Modified: 27 Apr 2011 17:38
• Reporter: Victor Kirkebo
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Enterprise Backup
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 3.5.2
• OS: Any
• Assigned to: Ritheesh Vedire
• CPU Architecture: Any

[21 Dec 2010 15:25] Victor Kirkebo

Description:
For lsn>2^31 I get this error message for incremental backups:
mysqlbackup: Error: --incremental is given but --lsn is not or wrong value

How to repeat:
run mysqlbackup command with --incremental and --lsn=N where N>2^31

[23 Dec 2010 18:52] Sveta Smirnova

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described. See also bug #57681

[17 Jan 2011 15:54] Ingo Strüwing

Patch approved. No comments.

[27 Apr 2011 17:38] John Russell

Added to 3.5.3 changelog:

For a system where the LSN has reached a value exceeding 2**31, an incremental backup could fail with the error message: 

mysqlbackup: Error: --incremental is given but --lsn is not or wrong value