# Can I take a hotbackup of MySQL 5.5.46 and restore to MariaDB 10.x

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**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-i-take-a-hotbackup-of-mysql-5-5-46-and-restore-to-mariadb-10-x/4926 "2016-06-14T08:21:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-i-take-a-hotbackup-of-mysql-5-5-46-and-restore-to-mariadb-10-x/4926/1 "2016-06-14T08:21:58Z")

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Hi,  
I want to migrate to MariaDB 10.x in the long run whereas I’m currently on MySQL community 5.5.46  
My data size is about 20 GB which makes mysqldump or mydumper+myloader impossibly slow (2-3 hours for restore)  
Xtrabackup is a doing a great job (~15 min total)

So, can I take a hotbackup of MySQL 5.5.46 and restore to MariaDB 10.x ?

If a single version of PXB does this that would be great, but if I have to use one version of PXB to backup and another to restore, that’s obviously not a problem.  
But can it be done?

Or are the data formats too incompatible?

Thanks in advance.