Data Domain: DDBoostFS Plug-In Validation and Best Practices for MySQL Enterprise Backup

Summary: This KB article provides best practices and configuration guidelines for applications with the Data Domain DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS). In addition, this article contains insights and tips about how the application should be configured to maximize all the benefits of BoostFS. MySQL Enterprise Backup provides enterprise-grade backup and recovery for MySQL. It delivers hot, online, non-blocking backups on multiple platforms including Linux. ...

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Instructions

Set up BoostFS
Install BoostFS on the MySQL server to be backed up.
Create a mountpoint /backup and mount DD Storage Unit using BoostFS.

How to disable compression and encryption:

--compress=TRUE/FALSE (default) by default compression is disabled, so backup command without this option will backup without compression.
--encrypt=TRUE/FALSE (default) by default encryption is disabled, so backup command without this option will backup without encryption.


How to run a backup:

mysqlbackup --no-defaults --debug --force --trace=0 --user=root --password=passwd --host=ostqa-len35.datadomain.com --port=3306 --with-timestamp --backup-dir=/mounts/bfs/si-gen1 --backup-image=/mounts/bfs/si-gen1.img backup-to-image &> mysqlbackup-$BFSPREFIX.out


How to start a restore:

mysqlbackup --no-defaults --debug --force --trace=0 --user=root --password=passwd --host=ostqa-len35.datadomain.com --port=3306 --with-timestamp --backup-dir=/mounts/bfs/si-gen1 --backup-image=/mounts/bfs/si-gen1.img --datadir=/mnt/1tbpart/mysql copy-backand-apply-log &> mysqlbackup-$BFSPREFIX.out


Best Practices - MySQL Enterprise Backup

  1. Disable software compression and encryption for better data deduplication.
  2. Avoid using incremental backup.
  3. One backup stream per database.

Extra Command options for boostfs mount from the Configuring and using BoostFS for Windows Guide:
 

- O data - cache=<enable|disable> Option to enable data-cache which results in performance improvement for MSSQL multistreams environment.
Default value: Disable



Extra Command options for boostfs mount from the Configuring and using BoostFS for both Windows and Linux Guides:
 

Option Description
- o allow-others=<true | false>

Allow users on the client system other than the mount-to-mount BoostFS owner.

Default value: false

Additional Information

Affected Products

Data Domain
Article Properties
Article Number: 000206562
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 14 يناير 2026
Version:  4
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