Installing Percona XtraBackup from a Binary Tarball¶
Note
The following instructions install Percona XtraBackup 2.4 by downloading and installing a binary tarball. The instructions to install Percona XtraBackup 8.0 by the same method are available in the Percona XtraBackup 8.0 installation documentation.
Percona provides binary tarballs of Percona XtraBackup. Binary tarballs contain pre-compiled executables, libraries, and other dependencies and are compressed tar archives. Extract the binary tarballs to any path.
Binary tarballs are available for download and installation. The following table lists the tarballs available in Linux - Generic. Select the Percona XtraBackup 2.4 version number and the type of tarball for your installation. Binary tarballs support all distributions.
After you have downloaded the binary tarballs, extract the tarball in the file location of your choice.
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Full | percona-xtrabackup–Linux.x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz | Contains binaries, libraries, test files, and debug symbols |
| Minimal | percona-xtrabackup–Linux.x86_64.glibc2.12-minimal.tar.gz | Contains binaries, and libraries but does not include test files, or debug symbols |
Fetch and extract the correct binary tarball. For example, the following downloads the full tarball for version 2.4.24:
You may need to update the apt repositories and then install wget.
$ apt update
$ apt install wget
$ wget wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4.27/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz
Expected results
--2022-12-06 17:01:29-- https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4.27/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz
Resolving downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)... 74.121.199.231, 162.220.4.221, 162.220.4.222
Connecting to downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)|74.121.199.231|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 77216741 (74M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: 'percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz'
Uncompress the file:
$ tar xvf percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz
Expected results
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/man/
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/man/man1/
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/man/man1/xtrabackup.1
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/man/man1/xbstream.1
percona-xtrabackup-2.4.27-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.12/man/man1/xbcrypt.1
...
An installation from a binary tarball requires doing certain tasks manually, such as configuring settings, and policies, that a repository package installation performs automatically.