# Database Backup

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/database-backup/3018>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [October 21, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/database-backup/3018 "2013-10-21T00:51:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ashokkumar2003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@ashokkumar2003](https://forums.percona.com/u/ashokkumar2003)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/database-backup/3018/1 "2013-10-21T00:51:56Z")

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Team,

Please let us know how can we take the mysql DB backup via command line tool. Just like mysqladmin command.

Please advise  
Thanks  
Ashok

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/database-backup/3018/2 "2013-10-21T01:26:09Z")

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[mysqldump](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysqldump.html) is the command line utility that performs backup. On the other hand, [Percona Xtrabackup](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/) is hot backup tool which can perform backups without locking your database.

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**Author:** ![ashokkumar2003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@ashokkumar2003](https://forums.percona.com/u/ashokkumar2003)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/database-backup/3018/3 "2013-10-25T10:57:08Z")

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Thanks got it