# Best practice for backup/restoring a single database throughout the PXC

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/best-practice-for-backup-restoring-a-single-database-throughout-the-pxc/5048 "2016-08-24T04:55:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![scaarup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@scaarup](https://forums.percona.com/u/scaarup)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/best-practice-for-backup-restoring-a-single-database-throughout-the-pxc/5048/1 "2016-08-24T04:55:18Z")

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Hi guys.  
I am experimenting with PXC and my plan is to set up a 5 node cluster which should contain 2 databases for two separate applications. I am trying to figure out how I should backup each of the databases and how to restore only database1 to all nodes in the cluster without downtime for database2. I cannot find this in the documentation. Can you please advise.  
Thank you.