Installing Percona XtraBackup from Percona yum repository

1. Install the Percona repository

   You can install Percona yum repository by running the following command as a root user or with sudo:

   yum install http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-6/percona-release-0.1-6.noarch.rpm
   

   You should see some output such as the following:

   Retrieving http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-6/percona-release-0.1-6.noarch.rpm
   
   Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   
      1:percona-release        ########################################### [100%]
   

$ wget http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-6/\

percona-release-0.1-6.noarch.rpm

$ rpm -ivH percona-release-0.1-6.noarch.rpm

1. Testing the repository

   Make sure packages are now available from the repository, by executing the following command:

   yum list | grep percona
   

   You should see output similar to the following:

   ...
   
   percona-xtrabackup-20.x86_64               2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-20-debuginfo.x86_64     2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-20-test.x86_64          2.0.8-587.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-21.x86_64               2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-21-debuginfo.x86_64     2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-22.x86_64               2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-22-debuginfo.x86_64     2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-debuginfo.x86_64        2.3.5-1.el5                 percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-test.x86_64             2.3.5-1.el5                 percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-test-21.x86_64          2.1.9-746.rhel5             percona-release-x86_64
   
   percona-xtrabackup-test-22.x86_64          2.2.13-1.el5                percona-release-x86_64
   
   ...
   

2. Install the packages

   You can now install Percona XtraBackup by running:

   yum install percona-xtrabackup-24
   

Percona yum Testing Repository

Percona offers pre-release builds from our testing repository. To subscribe to the testing repository, you’ll need to enable the testing repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/percona-release.repo. To do so, set both percona-testing-$basearch and percona-testing-noarch to enabled = 1 (Note that there are 3 sections in this file: release, testing and experimental - in this case it is the second section that requires updating). NOTE: You’ll need to install the Percona repository first (ref above) if this hasn’t been done already.

Installing Percona XtraBackup using downloaded rpm packages

Download the packages of the desired series for your architecture from the download page. Following example will download Percona XtraBackup 2.4.4 release package for CentOS 7:

$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4.4/\

binary/redhat/7/x86_64/percona-xtrabackup-24-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Now you can install Percona XtraBackup by running:

$ yum localinstall percona-xtrabackup-24-2.4.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Uninstalling Percona XtraBackup¶

To completely uninstall Percona XtraBackup you’ll need to remove all the installed packages.

Remove the packages

yum remove percona-xtrabackup