Installing Percona XtraBackup on Debian and Ubuntu¶
Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona XtraBackup software repositories and the download page.
Specific information on the supported platforms, products, and versions is described in Percona Software and Platform Lifecycle.
What’s in each DEB package?¶
The percona-xtrabackup-80
package contains the latest Percona XtraBackup
GA binaries and associated files.
The percona-xtrabackup-dbg-80
package contains the debug symbols for
binaries in percona-xtrabackup-80
.
The percona-xtrabackup-test-80
package contains the test suite for
Percona XtraBackup.
The percona-xtrabackup
package contains the older version of the
Percona XtraBackup.
Installing Percona XtraBackup via percona-release
¶
Percona XtraBackup, like many other Percona products, is installed
via the percona-release
package configuration tool.
Download a deb package for
percona-release
the repository packages from Percona web:$ wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.deb
Install the downloaded package with dpkg. To do that, run the following commands as root or with sudo:
dpkg -i percona-release_latest.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.deb
Once you install this package the Percona repositories should be added. You can check the repository setup in the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/percona-release.list
file.Enable the repository:
percona-release enable-only tools release
If Percona XtraBackup is intented to be used in combination with the upstream MySQL Server, you only need to enable the
tools
repository:percona-release enable-only tools
.Remember to update the local cache:
apt-get update
After that you can install the
percona-xtrabackup-80
package:$ sudo apt-get install percona-xtrabackup-80
In order to make compressed backups, install the
qpress
package:$ sudo apt-get install qpress
See also
Apt-Pinning the packages¶
In some cases you might need to “pin” the selected packages to avoid the
upgrades from the distribution repositories. You’ll need to make a new file
/etc/apt/preferences.d/00percona.pref
and add the following lines in
it:
Package: *
Pin: release o=Percona Development Team
Pin-Priority: 1001
For more information about the pinning you can check the official debian wiki.
Installing Percona XtraBackup using downloaded deb packages¶
Download the packages of the desired series for your architecture from the download page. The following example will download Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4-1 release package for Debian 8.0:
$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-8.0.4/binary/debian/stretch/x86_64/percona-xtrabackup-80_8.0.4-1.stretch_amd64.deb
Now you can install Percona XtraBackup by running:
$ sudo dpkg -i percona-xtrabackup-80_0.4-1.stretch_amd64.deb
Note
When installing packages manually like this, you’ll need to make sure to resolve all the dependencies and install missing packages yourself.
Uninstalling Percona XtraBackup¶
To uninstall Percona XtraBackup you’ll need to remove all the installed packages.
Remove the packages
$ sudo apt-get remove percona-xtrabackup-80
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