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Compressed Backup
Percona XtraBackup supports compressed backups: a local or streaming backup
can be compressed or decompressed with xbstream.

Creating Compressed Backups


In order to make a compressed backup you’ll need to use the xtrabackup –
compress option:

$ xtrabackup --backup --compress --target-dir=/data/compressed/

The xtrabackup --compress uses the qpress tool that you can install via the
percona-release package configuration tool as follows:

$ sudo percona-release enable tools


$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install qpress

Note

Enable the repository: percona-release enable-only tools release . If you intend to use
Percona XtraBackup in combination with the upstream MySQL Server, you only need
to enable the tools repository: percona-release enable-only tools .

If you want to speed up the compression you can use the parallel compression,
which can be enabled with xtrabackup –compress-threads option. Following
example will use four threads for compression:

$ xtrabackup --backup --compress --compress-threads=4 \


--target-dir=/data/compressed/

Output should look like this Did you know that


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170223 13:00:38 [01] Compressing ./test/sbtest1.frm to
/tmp/compressed/test/sbtest1.frm.qp
170223 13:00:38 [01] ...done
170223 13:00:38 [01] Compressing ./test/sbtest2.frm to
/tmp/compressed/test/sbtest2.frm.qp
170223 13:00:38 [01] ...done
...

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170223 13:00:39 [00] Compressing xtrabackup_info


170223 13:00:39 [00] ...done
xtrabackup: Transaction log of lsn (9291934) to (9291934) was copied.
170223 13:00:39 completed OK!

Preparing the backup

Before you can prepare the backup you must uncompress all the files. Percona
XtraBackup has implemented xtrabackup --decompress option that can be used to
decompress the backup.

$ xtrabackup --decompress --target-dir=/data/compressed/

Note

xtrabackup --parallel can be used with xtrabackup --decompress option to


decompress multiple files simultaneously.

Percona XtraBackup does not automatically remove the compressed files. In


order to clean up the backup directory, use the xtrabackup --remove-original
option. If the files not removed they are not copied or moved to the datadir if
xtrabackup --copy-back or xtrabackup --move-back are used.

When the files are uncompressed you can prepare the backup with the
xtrabackup --prepare option:

$ xtrabackup --prepare --target-dir=/data/compressed/

Check for a confirmation message:

InnoDB: Starting shutdown...


InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 9293846
170223 13:39:31 completed OK!

Now the files in /data/compressed/ are ready to be used by the server.

Restoring the backup

xtrabackup has a xtrabackup --copy-back option, which performs the restoration


of a backup to the server’s datadir:

$ xtrabackup --copy-back --target-dir=/data/backups/

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The option copies all the data-related files back to the server’s datadir ,
determined by the server’s my.cnf configuration file. Check the last line of the
output for a success message:

170223 13:49:13 completed OK!

Verify the file permissions after copying the data back. You may need to adjust
the permissions. For example, the following command changes the owner of the
file location:

$ chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

Now that the datadir contains the restored data. You are ready to start the
server.

Contact us

For free technical help, visit the Percona Community Forum.

To report bugs or submit feature requests, open a JIRA ticket.

For paid support and managed or consulting services , contact Percona


Sales.

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