# Installing and running Xrabackup

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/installing-and-running-xrabackup/4208>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [May 7, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installing-and-running-xrabackup/4208 "2015-05-07T04:52:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@George](https://forums.percona.com/u/George)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installing-and-running-xrabackup/4208/1 "2015-05-07T04:52:28Z")

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Hello all,

First of all I would liek to let you know that I have a little experience on mysql so my questions could be sound stupid to some of you but I need your help.

- Installed using #rpm -Uvh percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm under a temp user I created.  
Question: How can I start testing xtrabackup in order to perform a test backup of mysql DB, is there any console that I have to access like mysql or just issuing below command should work (which doesn’t so maybe I did soemthing wrong on instalaltion)  
[COLOR=#BB60D5]$ xtrabackup --backup --datadir=/var/lib/mysql/ --target-dir=/data/backups/mysql/  
Thank you and lookign for your replies.  
George

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**Author:** ![scott.nemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/scott.nemes/32/5_2.png) [@scott.nemes](https://forums.percona.com/u/scott.nemes)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installing-and-running-xrabackup/4208/2 "2015-05-07T10:28:17Z")

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Hi George;

Looks like you got the Percona repo installed, so now you need to install Xtrabackup:

$ yum install percona-xtrabackup

Then take a look at the many guides on the Percona website regarding how to do various backup scenarios, from a basic full backup/restore, to incremental backups, etc.

[url][How-tos and Recipes](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.2/how-tos.html#recipes-ibk%5B/url%5D)

-Scott

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**Author:** ![George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@George](https://forums.percona.com/u/George)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/installing-and-running-xrabackup/4208/3 "2015-05-11T02:00:07Z")

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Thank you Scott!!