Percona XtraBackup is an open-source backup utility for MySQL-based servers that performs non-blocking backups.
It works with MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server.
Percona XtraBackup is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of the server in a production environment.
Features include:
- Backups that complete quickly and reliably.
- Works with MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server.
- Supports completely non-blocking backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and HailDB storage engines.
- Back up the following storage engines by briefly pausing writes at the end of the backup: MyISAM, Merge, and Archive, including partitioned tables, triggers, and database options.
- Uninterrupted transaction processing during backups.
- Savings on disk space and network bandwidth.
- Automatic backup verification.
- Make incremental backups.
- Full compressed backups.
- Incremental compressed backups.
- Incremental backups with archived logs feature in Percona Server.
- Encrypted backups.
- Stream compressed backups to another server.
- Parallel local backups.
- Parallel compression.
- Parallel encryption.
- Parallel apply-log.
- Partial backups.
- Throttling.
- Safe slave backups.
- Individual tables and partitions export.
- Higher uptime due to faster restore time.
- Create new MySQL replication slaves easily.
Website: www.percona.com
Support: Manual, GitHub
Developer: Percona LLC
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Percona XtraBackup is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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