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MySQL backup XtraBackup

Hot online backup for MySQL and MariaDB

Backup & Recovery ★ 1.6k stars Hard setup GPL-2.0

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.

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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

Is MySQL backup XtraBackup secure?

OSV.dev lists 4 published advisories for MySQL backup XtraBackup. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2022-25834, published 2023-06-07 (1225 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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