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# Percona XtraBackup

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> Percona XtraBackup is a complete, online, open source backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 15 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Percona XtraBackup?

Percona XtraBackup is the ideal backup solution for any organization running MySQL. It performs non-blocking backups of standalone, master/slave, and clustered MySQL environments.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 15 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Percona
- **Founded**: 2006

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Free, open-source
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Cloud Backup
- Compression
- Encryption
- Incremental Backup

## Support Options

- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Backup Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31076/backup/software)

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## Reviews

### "Great for Live & Incremental Backups, Takes Time to Master Arguments" — 5.0/5

> **Dawson** | *5 June 2025* | Hospital & Health Care | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: The main selling point for me was the non-pausing DB backups, as well as being able to do incremental backups. Xtrabackup has been incredibly helpful when it comes to recreating replica servers as its able to stream the backup to another server without needing to allocate that space on the main server itself.
> 
> **Cons**: XtraBackup as a tool is very well thought out. Sometimes its hard to remember what flags/arguments to pass when running it, but Percona has excellent documentation on how to utilize the tool for various different scenarios

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### "A Backup that really Backs you UP \!" — 5.0/5

> **Rutam Prita** | *9 May 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: XtraBackup has delivered on its promise since it launched in the market. Being a large enterprise, we have deployments and production on various public clouds and we believe in Hybrid infra. XtraBackup has been a great solution for our MySQL-based servers. While evaluating the product we were really impressed with its appealing features like compression, streaming, parallelism. And one of the best parts is that it supports incremental backups. We have loads of VMs running and with slight configurations, we can easily trigger XtraBackup to do its job. Percona has even open-sourced its products which offers great scope for its features to be enhanced as the larger community would always keep contributing to it. Lastly, the customer support and the community is always there to resolve your queries and help you use them hassle-free.
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> **Cons**: XtraBackup has really lived up to its expectation during evaluation and served its purpose perfectly fine and we are yet to find any cons in it.
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> Percona XtraBackup has made our infra lighter and easier in terms of handling the MySQL server backups and provided us with all the reliability and precision we expected. We really didn't regret evaluating Xtrabackup and it's worth using for all its features and affordable prices.

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### "Best Mysql Backup tool" — 4.0/5

> **Diego M.** | *14 October 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: \* Performance(Backup speed)
\* Non-Blocking.
> 
> **Cons**: I don't find any particular downsize of this tool-
> 
> I've been using Percona XtraBackup for a almost 1 year now,  along with pt-online-schema-change both tools are incredibly useful for Admins.

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### "Amazing Backup" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *3 July 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It has extremely good backup restore with consistency. Ease to manage all the streaming options at the time of consultancy properly. It is the one-stop solution for all the backups we need on time.  It has no disturbance will making backup interference at moments.
Easy to operate, relevant to work, and fastest to load.
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> **Cons**: No cons for this as you are getting everything free of what you can expect more along with excellent features.
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> it is very easy to manage with all functionalities at once and it has amazing availability Xtrabackup. Everyone should use this Percona Xtrabackup without even thinking once, overall experience 100/100.

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### "Free backups" — 5.0/5

> **Francisco Miguel** | *7 October 2020* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's very easy to use and will create working backups for very big databases in a reasonable amount of time. And it's free, as in no-cost and source available. The best kind of free
> 
> **Cons**: The documentation can be a little bit challenging if you are trying to perform some advanced operations. ie. restoring only a table or a schema. But it's possible, it will just take longer to figure out how.
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> MySQL backups have traditionally used solutions like mysqldump. But when your database is bigger or you need a more advanced solution, Oracle charges for this commercial grade solution.
Percona XtraBackup is a free solution that matches 1:1 all the commercial features for backups that you can find in Oracle's solution. The syntax is also almost identical, so you can move from one to another without effort.

But once you have started using Percona XtraBackup you will not want to go back\!

Opinions expressed here are my own and not the opinions of my employer.

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