Installing Percona XtraBackup 2.4 Installing Percona XtraBackup 2.4¶
This page provides the information on how to install Percona XtraBackup. Following options are available:
- Installing Percona XtraBackup from Repositories (recommended)
- Installing Percona XtraBackup from Downloaded rpm or apt packages
- Compiling and Installing from Source Code
Before installing, you might want to read the Percona XtraBackup Release Notes.
Installing Percona XtraBackup from Repositories¶
Percona provides repositories for yum (RPM packages for
Red Hat, CentOS and Amazon Linux AMI) and apt (.deb
packages for Ubuntu and Debian) for software such as Percona Server,
Percona XtraBackup, and Percona Toolkit. This makes it easy to install and
update your software and its dependencies through your operating system’s
package manager. This is the recommend way of installing where possible.
Following guides describe the installation process for using the official
Percona repositories for .deb and .rpm packages.
