Index

• About Percona XtraBackup
• Accelerate the backup process
• Work with AppArmor
• Apt pinning packages
• Backup process overview
• Work with binary logs
• Binary tarball file names available
• Compile and install from source
• Configure xtrabackup
• Connection and privileges needed
• Copyright and licensing information
• Create a compressed backup
• Create a full backup
• Create a partial backup
• Create an incremental backup
• Create an individual partitions backup
• Decompress and prepare a backup
• Dictionary cache
• Encrypt backups
• Encrypted InnoDB tablespace backups
• Exponential backoff
• FIFO data sink
• Files in packages built for Percona XtraBackup Pro
• Files in the DEB package
• Files in the RPM package built for Percona XtraBackup 8.4
• FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK option
• Frequently asked questions
• Get help from Percona
• Glossary
• How Percona XtraBackup works
• How to create a new (or repair a broken) GTID-based replica
• How to set up a replica for replication in 6 simple steps with Percona XtraBackup
• Improved log statements
• Index of files created by Percona XtraBackup
• Install from a binary tarball
• Install overview
• Install Percona XtraBackup Pro
• Install Percona XtraBackup 8.4 using downloaded RPM packages
• Install using downloaded DEB packages
• Install with the Percona-release Tool on Debian-based Systems
• Limitations
• lock-ddl-per-table option improvements
• LRU dump backup
• Make backups in replication environments
• Next steps
• Percona Toolkit version checking
• Percona XtraBackup binaries overview
• Percona XtraBackup features
• Percona XtraBackup Pro
• Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Documentation
• Permissions needed
• Point-in-time recovery
• Prepare a full backup
• Prepare a partial backup
• Prepare an incremental backup
• Prepare an individual partitions backup
• Quickstart Overview
• Reduced backup lock time
• Restore a partial backup
• Restore full, incremental, compressed backups
• Restore individual tables
• Restore the backup
• Restore the partition from the backup
• Run a Docker container
• Work with SELinux
• Server version and backup version comparison
• Smart memory estimation
• Start a Docker container and take a backup
• Store backup history on the server
• Take a streaming backup
• Take an incremental backup using page tracking
• Throttling backups
• Trademark policy
• Understand version numbers
• Uninstall Percona XtraBackup 8.4 on Debian and Ubuntu
• Uninstall Percona XtraBackup 8.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
• update-curl-utility
• Use a YUM repository to install Percona XtraBackup
• Use the xbcloud binary with Amazon S3
• Use the xbcloud binary with an IAM instance profile
• Use the xbcloud binary with Google Cloud Storage
• Use the xbcloud binary with Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage
• Use the xbcloud binary with MinIO
• Use the xbcloud binary with Swift
• Verify backups with replication and pt-checksum
• The xbcloud binary overview
• The xbcloud command-line options
• The xbcrypt binary overview
• The xbcrypt command-line options
• The xbstream binary overview
• The xbstream command-line options
• The xtrabackup binary overview
• The xtrabackup command-line options
• xtrabackup exit codes
• xtrabackup implementation details
• Release notes/
• Percona XtraBackup 8.4 release notes index

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Last update: 2025-02-18