Install with the Percona-release Tool on Debian-based Systems¶

Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona XtraBackup software repositories and the download page.

Specific information on the supported platforms, products, and versions is described in Percona Release Lifecycle Overview.

Install Percona XtraBackup through percona-release¶

Install Percona XtraBackup, like many other Percona products, with the percona-release package configuration tool.

Use the apt package manager to dowload percona-release:
```
$ sudo apt update
```
Install the curl download utility if it’s not installed:
```
$ sudo apt install curl
```

Download the percona-release the repository package:

$ curl -O https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb

Install the downloaded package and its dependencies using apt:
```
sudo apt install gnupg2 lsb-release ./percona-release_latest.generic_all.deb
```
5. Refresh the local cache to update the package information:
```
$ sudo apt update
```
2. Install the downloaded package with dpkg. To do that, run the following commands as root or with sudo: dpkg -i percona-release_latest.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.deb

percona-release enable pxb-80 release percona-release show percona-release setup pxb80 percona-release apt install percona-xtrabackup (This produced an error: Unknown action specified: apt) percona-release apt install -y percona-xtrabackup-pxb-80 (This produced an error: Unknown action specified: apt) apt -y install percona-xtrabackup-80

Install the percona-xtrabackup-pxb-84-lts package:

$ sudo apt install percona-xtrabackup-pxb-84-lts

To decompress backups made using LZ4 or ZSTD compression algorithm, install the corresponding package:
Install the lz4 packageInstall the zstd package
$ sudo apt install lz4
$ sudo apt install zstd

Note

For AppArmor profile information, see Working with AppArmor.

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Last update: 2024-09-13