The innobackupex Program

The innobackupex program is a symlink to the xtrabackup C program. It lets you perform point-in-time backups of InnoDB / XtraDB tables together with the schema definitions, MyISAM tables, and other portions of the server. In previous versions innobackupex was implemented as a Perl script.

This manual section explains how to use innobackupex in detail.

Warning

The innobackupex program is deprecated. Please switch to xtrabackup.

The Backup Cycle - Full Backups

• Creating a Backup with innobackupex

• Preparing a Full Backup with innobackupex

• Restoring a Full Backup with innobackupex

Other Types of Backup

• Incremental Backups with innobackupex

• Partial Backups

• Encrypted Backups

Advanced Features

• Streaming and Compressing Backups

• Taking Backups in Replication Environments

• Accelerating the backup process

• Throttling backups with innobackupex

• Restoring Individual Tables

• Point-In-Time recovery

• Improved FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK handling

• Store backup history on the server

Implementation

• How innobackupex Works

References

• The innobackupex Option Reference

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