Installing Percona XtraBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS

Note

The following instructions install Percona XtraBackup 2.4 using the YUM package manager. The instructions to install Percona XtraBackup 8.0 using the YUM package manager are available in the Percona XtraBackup 8.0 installation documentation.

Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona XtraBackup software repositories and the download page. The Percona yum repository supports popular RPM-based operating systems, including the Amazon Linux AMI.

The easiest way to install the Percona Yum repository is to install an RPM that configures yum and installs the Percona GPG key.

Specific information on the supported platforms, products, and versions is described in Percona Software and Platform Lifecycle.

What’s in each RPM package?

The percona-xtrabackup-24 package contains the latest Percona XtraBackup GA binaries and associated files.

The percona-xtrabackup-24-debuginfo package contains the debug symbols for binaries in percona-xtrabackup-24.

The percona-xtrabackup-test-24 package contains the test suite for Percona XtraBackup.

The percona-xtrabackup package contains the older version of the Percona XtraBackup.

Installing Percona XtraBackup from Percona yum repository

1. Install the percona-release configuration tool

   You can install the yum repository for percona-release by running the following command as a root user or with sudo:

   $ yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   

   You should see some output such as the following:

   Retrieving https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
      1:percona-release        ########################################### [100%]
   

   Note

   RHEL/Centos 5 doesn’t support installing the packages directly from the remote location so you’ll need to download the package first and install it manually with rpm:

   $ wget https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   $ rpm -ivH percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   

2. Testing the repository

   Make sure packages are now available from the repository, by executing the following command:

   $ yum list | grep percona
   

   You should see output similar to the following:

   ...
   percona-xtrabackup-20.x86_64               2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-20-debuginfo.x86_64     2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-20-test.x86_64          2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-21.x86_64               2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-21-debuginfo.x86_64     2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-22.x86_64               2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-22-debuginfo.x86_64     2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-debuginfo.x86_64        2.3.5-1.el5                 percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-test.x86_64             2.3.5-1.el5                 percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-test-21.x86_64          2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   percona-xtrabackup-test-22.x86_64          2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   ...
   

3. 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.

4. Install Percona XtraBackup by running: yum install percona-xtrabackup-24

   Warning

   In order to successfully install Percona XtraBackup on CentOS prior to version 7, the libev package needs to be installed first. This package libev package can be installed from the EPEL repositories.

Percona yum Testing Repository

Percona offers pre-release builds from our testing repository. To subscribe to the testing repository, you’ll need to enable the testing repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/percona-release.repo. To do so, set both percona-testing-$basearch and percona-testing-noarch to enabled = 1 (Note that there are 3 sections in this file: release, testing and experimental - in this case it is the second section that requires updating).

Note

You’ll need to install the Percona repository first (ref above) if this hasn’t been done already.

1. To be able to make compressed backups, install the qpress package:

   $ yum install qpress
   

   See also

   Compressed Backup

Installing Percona XtraBackup using downloaded rpm packages

Download the packages of the desired series for your architecture from the download page. Following example will download Percona XtraBackup 2.4.4 release package for CentOS 7:

$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4.4/\
binary/redhat/7/x86_64/percona-xtrabackup-24-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Now you can install Percona XtraBackup by running:

$ yum localinstall percona-xtrabackup-24-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

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 completely uninstall Percona XtraBackup you’ll need to remove all the installed packages.

Remove the packages

yum remove percona-xtrabackup

Contact us

For free technical help, visit the Percona Community Forum.

To report bugs or submit feature requests, open a JIRA ticket.

For paid support and managed or consulting services , contact Percona Sales.

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Last update: 2022-12-06