# hardware resources for xtrabackup

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/hardware-resources-for-xtrabackup/4646>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [January 5, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/hardware-resources-for-xtrabackup/4646 "2016-01-05T11:40:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![johntest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@johntest](https://forums.percona.com/u/johntest)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/hardware-resources-for-xtrabackup/4646/1 "2016-01-05T11:40:10Z")

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back of DB sized 1 TB.

Is xtrabackup multi-threaded app? how many cores should we give it?  
Same for RAM.

Thanks!