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 Percona Xtrabackup - Documentation
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|Percona XtraBackup| is an open-source hot backup utility for |MySQL| - based servers that doesn't lock your database during the backup.

It can back up data from |InnoDB|, |XtraDB|, and |MyISAM| tables on |MySQL| 5.1 [#n-1]_, 5.5 and 5.6 servers, as well as |Percona Server| with |XtraDB|. For a high-level overview of many of its advanced features, including a feature comparison, please see :doc:`intro`.

Whether it is a 24x7 highly loaded server or a low-transaction-volume environment, |Percona XtraBackup| is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of the server in a production environment. `Commercial support contracts are available <http://www.percona.com/mysql-support/>`_.

|Percona XtraBackup| is a combination of the |xtrabackup| *C* program, and the |innobackupex| *Perl* script. The |xtrabackup| program copies and manipulates |InnoDB| and |XtraDB| data files, and the *Perl* script enables enhanced functionality, such as interacting with a running |MySQL| server and backing up |MyISAM| tables. 

.. note:: 

   This is a **BETA** quality release and it is not intended for production.


Introduction
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   intro

Installation
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   installation
   installation/compiling_xtrabackup

User's Manual
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   manual

Tutorials, Recipes, How-tos
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   how-tos

* :ref:`recipes-xbk`

* :ref:`recipes-ibk`

* :ref:`howtos`

* :ref:`aux-guides`

Miscellaneous
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   faq
   release-notes
   glossary
   xtrabackup-files
   trademark-policy

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`

* :ref:`search`

.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#n-1] Support for InnoDB 5.1 builtin has been removed in |Percona XtraBackup| 2.1

