Setting Up Percona-xtrabackup

Percona XtraBackup is the world's only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. With Percona XtraBackup, you can achieve the following benefits:

• Backups that complete quickly and reliably
• Uninterrupted transaction processing during backups
• Savings on disk space and network bandwidth
• Automatic backup verification
• Higher uptime due to faster restore time

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 Installation:

wget http://www.percona.com/redir/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-2.0.3/binary/Linux/x86_64/percona-xtrabackup-2.0.3-470.tar.gz

tar -zxvf percona-xtrabackup-2.0.3-470.tar.gz

cd percona-xtrabackup-2.0.3/bin

sudo cp * /usr/bin