Install from a binary tarball

Binary tarballs are compressed tar archives that contain precompiled executable files, libraries, and other dependencies. You can extract the binary tarballs to any path.

Download the binary tarballs from the Linux - Generic section on Percona Software Downloads .

The following example downloads the tarball. Run the following command as root or use the sudo command.

wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-8.4/Percona-XtraBackup-8.4.0-1/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-8.4.0-1-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.28.tar.gz

The output displays the following information:

Expected output

--2024-10-09 04:44:36--  https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-8.4/Percona-XtraBackup-8.4.0-       1/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-8.4.0-1-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.28.tar.gz
Resolving downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)... 147.135.54.159, 2604:2dc0:200:69f::2
Connecting to downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)|147.135.54.159|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 439358509 (419M) [application/gzip]
Saving to: ‘percona-xtrabackup-8.4.0-1-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.28.tar.gz’

percona-xtrabackup-8.4.0-1-Linux-x86_6 100%  
[============================================================================>] 419.00M  6.67MB/s    in 94s

2024-10-09 04:46:10 (4.48 MB/s) - ‘percona-xtrabackup-8.4.0-1-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.28.tar.gz’ saved 
[439358509/439358509]