Use a YUM repository to install Percona XtraBackup

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

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

Install Percona XtraBackup from Percona yum repository

To install Percona XtraBackup from Percona yum repository, do the following steps:

1. Install the Percona yum repository by running the following command as the root user or with sudo:

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

   Expected output

   Oracle Linux 9 BaseOS Latest (x86_64)           8.4 MB/s |  43 MB     00:05    
   Oracle Linux 9 Application Stream Packages (x86 8.6 MB/s |  47 MB     00:05    
   Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:06 ago on Wed Dec 11 14:12:54 2024.
   percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm                62 kB/s |  27 kB     00:00    
   Dependencies resolved.
   ...
   For more information, please visit:
   https://docs.percona.com/percona-software-repositories/percona-release.html
   
   
   Verifying        : percona-release-1.0-29.noarch                          1/1 
   
   Installed:
   percona-release-1.0-29.noarch                                                 
   
   Complete!
   

2. Enable the repository:

   sudo percona-release enable pxb-84-lts
   

   Expected output

   * Enabling the Percona Packaging Repository repository
   <*> All done!
   

3. Install Percona XtraBackup.

   sudo yum install percona-xtrabackup-84
   

   Expected output

   PMM2 Client release/x86_64 YUM repository        17 kB/s | 7.1 kB     00:00    
   Percona Release release/noarch YUM repository   5.3 kB/s | 2.0 kB     00:00    
   Percona Packaging Repository release/x86_64 YUM  95 kB/s |  52 kB     00:00    
   Percona Telemetry release/x86_64 YUM repository 4.3 kB/s | 1.7 kB     00:00    
   Dependencies resolved.
   ...
   perl-subs-1.03-481.el9.noarch                                                 
   perl-vars-1.05-481.el9.noarch                                                 
   rsync-3.2.3-20.el9.x86_64                                                     
   zstd-1.5.1-2.el9.x86_64 
   

4. Verify the installation.

   xtrabackup --version
   

   Expected output

   xtrabackup version 8.4.0-1 based on MySQL server 8.4.0 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: da6e1abd)
   

5. To decompress backups made using LZ4 or ZSTD compression algorithm, install the corresponding package:

   Install the lz4 packageInstall the zstd package

   sudo yum install lz4
   

   sudo yum install zstd
   

See also

To install Percona XtraBackup using downloaded rpm packages, see Install with package manager.

To uninstall Percona XtraBackup, see Uninstall Percona XtraBackup