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MySQL backup XtraBackup

Hot online backup for MySQL and MariaDB

Backup & Recovery ★ 1.5k 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 (1.5k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

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