# is it possible to delay slave replication?

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delay-slave-replication/1526
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [October 7, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delay-slave-replication/1526 "2010-10-07T16:22:33Z")
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### Author: ![iberkner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@iberkner](https://forums.percona.com/u/iberkner)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delay-slave-replication/1526/1 "2010-10-07T16:22:33Z")

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Say you want to have a slave system that also acts as sort of a backup the previous 24 hours of data. Is there a way to delay the slave replication by some amount of time so its always 24 hours (or some defined timespan) behind the master?

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### Author: ![xaprb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xaprb](https://forums.percona.com/u/xaprb)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-delay-slave-replication/1526/2 "2010-10-07T20:17:06Z")

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Yes, you can use mk-slave-delay from Maatkit.