https://www.fromdual.com/tags/xtrabackup/Recent content in Xtrabackup on FromDual GmbHHugoen-GBoli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)© FromDual GmbHSat, 11 Nov 2017 11:52:32 +0000https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:23:50 +0000oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser)https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/<h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#full">Full Backup</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_create_backup">Create Full Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_prepare_backup">Prepare Full Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_restore">Restore Full Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_restore_slave">Prepare slave from full backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_restore_gtid_slave">Prepare GTID slave from full backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_adv">Advantages / Disadvantages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#fb_imp">Important Hints</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#incremental">Incremental Backup</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#ib_create_backup">Create Incremental Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#ib_prepare_backup">Prepare Incremental Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#ib_restore">Restore Incremental Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#ib_adv">Advantages / Disadvantages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#ib_imp">Important Hints</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#diff">Differential Backup</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#partial">Partial Backup</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#pb_create_backup">Create Partial Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#pb_prepare_backup">Prepare Partial Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#pb_restore">Restore Partial Backup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#pb_adv">Advantages / Disadvantages</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fromdual.com/blog/xtrabackup_in_a_nutshell/#pb_imp">Important Hints</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>No one can deny that one of the most important and daily tasks for DBAs is performing backup and restore operations, we&rsquo;re not required to perform backup and restore operations only when we want to add new replication slave, when we want to implement disaster recovery procedures or when we want to prepare testing or staging server for the running production system, but even if we&rsquo;re going to make any changes to the database schema in order to enhance the database performance, it&rsquo;s recommended to have fresh backup copy before making any live changes, so if backup and restore operations cannot be handled smoothly, we&rsquo;re going to face many troubles in our daily work. If we&rsquo;re going to talk about backup and restore operations, Xtrabackup tool will be strongly appeared.</p>