MySQL backup XtraBackup
Hot online backup for MySQL and MariaDB
Percona XtraBackup is an open-source tool that performs non-blocking hot backups of MySQL and MariaDB databases. It allows backups while the database is running with no downtime.
Key features
- Non-blocking hot backups
- Incremental backup support
- Compression and encryption
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Active community (1.6k GitHub stars)
- Written in C++
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
MySQL backup XtraBackup replaces
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