Install with the Percona-release Tool on Debian-based Systems¶

Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona XtraBackup software repositories and the Percona Software Downloads .

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

Install Percona XtraBackup through percona-release¶

Install Percona XtraBackup, like many other Percona products, with the percona-release package configuration tool. Run the following commands as root or use the sudo command.

Use the apt package manager to download percona-release:

sudo apt update

Expected output

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Install the curl download utility if it’s not installed:

sudo apt install curl

Expected output

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.########################################################...] 
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.

Download the percona-release the repository package:

curl -O https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb

Expected output

% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 16510  100 16510    0     0  29915      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 30127

Install the downloaded package and its dependencies using apt:

sudo apt install gnupg2 lsb-release ./percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb

Expected output

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
...
For example, to enable the Percona Distribution for MySQL 9.7 repository use:

  percona-release setup pdps9.7

Note: To avoid conflicts with older product versions, the percona-release setup command may disable our original repository for some products.

For more information, please visit:
https://docs.percona.com/percona-software-repositories/percona-release.html

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.8) ...

Refresh the local cache to update the package information:

sudo apt update

Expected output

Hit:1 http://repo.percona.com/prel/apt noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://repo.percona.com/telemetry/apt noble InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Enable the specific percona-release product.

sudo percona-release enable pxb-97-lts

Expected output

* Enabling the Percona Packaging Repository repository
Hit:1 http://repo.percona.com/prel/apt noble InRelease
Get:2 http://repo.percona.com/pxb-97-lts/apt noble InRelease [12.8 kB]
Hit:3 http://repo.percona.com/telemetry/apt noble InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Get:8 http://repo.percona.com/pxb-97-lts/apt noble/main Sources [863 B]
Get:9 http://repo.percona.com/pxb-97-lts/apt noble/main amd64 Packages [3739 B]
Fetched 17.4 kB in 4s (3907 B/s)
Reading package lists...

Install Percona XtraBackup.

sudo apt install percona-xtrabackup-97

Expected output

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libaio1t64 libcurl4-openssl-dev libev4t64 libpopt0 lz4 rsync zstd
Suggested packages:
  libcurl4-doc libidn-dev libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev librtmp-dev libssh2-1-dev
  libssl-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev openssh-client openssh-server python3
  python3-braceexpand
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1t64 libcurl4-openssl-dev libev4t64 libpopt0 lz4 percona-xtrabackup-97
  rsync zstd
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
...
Setting up percona-xtrabackup-97 (9.7.1~rc1-1.noble) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-0ubuntu8.9) ...

Verify the installation.

xtrabackup --version

Expected output

xtrabackup version 9.7.1-rc1 based on MySQL server 9.7.1 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: b1c9c341)

To decompress backups made using LZ4 or ZSTD compression algorithm, install the corresponding package:
Install the lz4 packageInstall the zstd package
sudo apt install lz4
sudo apt install zstd

Note

For AppArmor profile information, see Working with AppArmor.