# How to make incremental backup?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-make-incremental-backup/6556>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [September 4, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-make-incremental-backup/6556 "2018-09-04T01:28:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-make-incremental-backup/6556/1 "2018-09-04T01:28:46Z")

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HI EveryOne

I have try the Incremental backup. In our scenario we have take the full backup on saturday. and incremental on Monday to Friday …

Now after Incremental I have applied apply with –redo-only on full backup

Then --apply-log on Monday INC the base dir is Full-Backup this done but, issue with Tue INC we can not --apply-log here for Tue INC base dir is Monday Incremental.

is not done…

Please help in this anyone knows how to make incremental backup for week …

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