January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
12h 57m
English
XtraBackup is an open source backup software provided by Percona. It copies flat files without shutting down the server, but to avoid inconsistencies, it uses a redo log file. It is widely used by many companies as a standard backup tool. The advantages are that it is very fast compared to logical backup tools and recovery is also very fast.
This is how Percona XtraBackup works (taken from the Percona XtraBackup documentation):
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