# incremental backup for large database

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [July 29, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/incremental-backup-for-large-database/1223 "2009-07-29T05:23:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ankur02018](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ankur02018](https://forums.percona.com/u/ankur02018)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/incremental-backup-for-large-database/1223/1 "2009-07-29T05:23:56Z")

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Hi ,  
I have large database with innodb tables Please guide  
how to take incremental backup.

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**Author:** ![wubx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@wubx](https://forums.percona.com/u/wubx)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/incremental-backup-for-large-database/1223/2 "2009-07-29T22:02:08Z")

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There is Two ways to do it :

Frist:  
Use Slave incremental backup  
(flush mysql binlog and backup binlog)  
Second:  
Use InnoDB Hot Backup Or XtraDB hot backup