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Install Percona XtraBackup on Red Hat-based systems

Ready-to-use packages are available from the Percona XtraBackup software repositories and the download page. The Percona yum repository supports popular RPM-based operating systems, including the Amazon Linux AMI, which has reached its end of life. Amazon Linux 2 is not supported at this time.

The easiest way to install the Percona Yum repository is to install an RPM that configures yum and installs the Percona GPG key.

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

Version changes

Starting with Percona XtraBackup 8.0.35-31, the RPM builds for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 include ARM packages with the aarch64.rpm extension. This extension means Percona XtraBackup is now available for users on ARM-based systems.

We recommend downloading Percona XtraBackup for the same platform as your MySQL-compatible server. For instance, if your server runs on an ARM64 platform, you should download and use the Percona XtraBackup with the aarch64.rpm extension for that operating system.

Make sure that you have the libev package installed before installing Percona XtraBackup on CentOS 6. For this operating system, the libev package is available from EPEL.

Prerequisites

  • Sudo or root access

  • Internet connection

Install from Percona YUM repository

The following procedure installs Percona XtraBackup 8.0.

  1. Install the Percona yum repository by running the following command as the root user or with sudo: 

    $ sudo yum install \
https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.\
noarch.rpm
    Example output 
    Oracle Linux 9 BaseOS Latest (x86_64)                                 6.6 MB/s |  35 MB     00:05
Oracle Linux 9 Application Stream Packages (x86_64)                   8.5 MB/s |  41 MB     00:04
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:06 ago on Mon Sep 23 09:43:33 2024.
percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm                                      49 kB/s |  27 kB     00:00
Dependencies resolved.
...
For more information, please visit:
https://docs.percona.com/percona-software-repositories/percona-release.html


Verifying        : percona-release-1.0-29.noarch    
                                            1/1

Installed:
percona-release-1.0-29.noarch

Complete!

  2. Enable the repository: 

    $ sudo percona-release enable pxb-80
    Example output 
    ```{.text .no-copy}
* Enabling the Percona XtraBackup 8.0 repository
<*> All done!
```

  3. Install Percona XtraBackup by running:

    $ sudo yum install percona-xtrabackup-80
    Example output 
    * Enabling the Percona XtraBackup 8.0 repository
<*> All done!
[root@e1dc549c0c65 /]# yum install percona-xtrabackup-80
PMM2 Client release/x86_64 YUM repository                              13 kB/s | 6.4 kB     00:00
Percona Release release/noarch YUM repository                         4.3 kB/s | 2.0 kB     00:00
Percona XtraBackup 8.0 release/x86_64 YUM repository                  363 kB/s | 416 kB     00:01
Percona Telemetry release/x86_64 YUM repository                       3.1 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00
Dependencies resolved.
...

Complete!

  4. To decompress backups made using LZ4 or ZSTD compression algorithm, install the corresponding package:

    $ sudo yum install lz4

    $ sudo yum install zstd

Verify the installation

Run Percona XtraBackup:

$ xtrabackup --version

If this command fails, the installation is incomplete or incorrect.

Troubleshoot

To troubleshoot a Percona XtraBackup 8.0.x installation on a Red Hat-based system, follow these steps:

  1. This command checks for missing libraries.

    $ ldd $(which xtrabackup) | grep "not found"

  2. Install missing dependencies:

    $ sudo yum install <missing-library-name>

  3. Examine log files:

    $ sudo journalctl -xe | grep xtrabackup

  4. Ensure the Percona repository is correctly set up:

    $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/percona-release.repo

  5. Update the system to ensure all packages are current:

    $ sudo yum update

  6. If issues persist, try a clean reinstall:

    $ sudo yum remove percona-xtrabackup-80 
$ sudo yum clean all 
$ sudo yum install percona-xtrabackup-80

  7. SELinux might block XtraBackup. Check its status:

    $ getenforce

  8. Set SELinux to permissive temporarily:

    $ sudo setenforce 0

  9. Create a backup to verify functionality:

    $ xtrabackup --backup --target-dir=/tmp/test_backup

If problems continue, gather all error messages and logs, then consult Percona’s documentation or support forums for further assistance.

See also

To install Percona XtraBackup using downloaded rpm packages, see Install with package manager.

To uninstall Percona XtraBackup, see Uninstall Percona XtraBackup

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Last update: 2024-11-21