Percona XtraBackup features¶

The following is a short list of the Percona XtraBackup features:

Creates hot InnoDB backups without pausing your database
Makes incremental backups of MySQL
Streams compressed MySQL backups to another server
Moves tables between MySQL servers on-line
Creates new MySQL replication replicas easily
Backs up MySQL without adding load to the server
Performs throttling based on the number of IO operations per second
Exports individual tables from a full InnoDB backup

Percona XtraBackup automatically uses backup locks, a lightweight alternative to FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK available in Percona Server, to copy non-InnoDB data. This operation avoids blocking DML queries that modify InnoDB tables.