Percona XtraBackup

Percona XtraBackup is an open-source non-blocking backup solution for InnoDB and XtraDB data. It works with MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 databases. XtraBackup is 100% open-source and free.

XtraBackup has many powerful features that solve real-world problems when backing up very large, heavily loaded databases:

• Perform backups online—avoid interrupting your database
• Perform streaming backups to another server
• Perform incremental backups; save money on disk space and bandwidth
• Create new replication slaves easily
• Perform advanced analysis of data and index files
• Move individual tables between servers without restarting (requires XtraDB for import)

For an annual fee, Percona Maintenance Services fulfills bug fix and build requests from Percona XtraBackup users as quickly as possible. Other users are still encouraged to report to us any bugs they encounter. We will try to attend to them as time allows but cannot promise any outcomes.