Percona XtraBackup - Documentation¶

Percona XtraBackup is an open-source hot backup utility for MySQL - based servers that doesn’t lock your database during the backup.

It can back up data from InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM tables on MySQL 5.1 [1], 5.5 and 5.6 servers, as well as Percona Server with XtraDB. For a high-level overview of many of its advanced features, including a feature comparison, please see About Percona XtraBackup.

Whether it is a 24x7 highly loaded server or a low-transaction-volume environment, Percona XtraBackup is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of the server in a production environment. Commercial support contracts are available.

Introduction¶

Installation¶

Installing Percona XtraBackup 2.3
- Installing Percona XtraBackup from Repositories
- Compiling and Installing from Source Code

Prerequisites¶

Backup Scenarios¶

User’s Manual¶

Percona XtraBackup User Manual

Advanced Features¶

Tutorials, Recipes, How-tos¶

References¶

Indices and tables¶

Footnotes

[1]	Support for InnoDB 5.1 builtin has been removed in Percona XtraBackup 2.1