# Is it possible to take incremental backup using percona xtrabackup tool in AWS RDS

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**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-take-incremental-backup-using-percona-xtrabackup-tool-in-aws-rds/6830 "2019-01-30T07:44:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![pavankumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@pavankumar](https://forums.percona.com/u/pavankumar)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-take-incremental-backup-using-percona-xtrabackup-tool-in-aws-rds/6830/1 "2019-01-30T07:44:54Z")

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We are taking incremental and full backup using percona xtrabackup in local linux machine upon mysql 5.6. But we need to take from AWS RDS instance for particular database

Thanks in advance  
Pavan Kumar

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-take-incremental-backup-using-percona-xtrabackup-tool-in-aws-rds/6830/2 "2019-02-03T19:57:44Z")

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The options you can take are either mysqldump or mydumper, or by taking a snapshot

[url][https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER\_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html[/url]](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html%5B/url%5D)  
[url][https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqldump.html[/url]](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqldump.html%5B/url%5D)  
[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/11/12/logical-mysql-backup-tool-mydumper-0-9-1-now-available/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/11/12/logical-mysql-backup-tool-mydumper-0-9-1-now-available/%5B/url%5D)

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**Author:** ![pavankumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@pavankumar](https://forums.percona.com/u/pavankumar)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-possible-to-take-incremental-backup-using-percona-xtrabackup-tool-in-aws-rds/6830/3 "2019-02-05T01:02:15Z")

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> [@jrivera;53467](#):
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> The options you can take are either mysqldump or mydumper, or by taking a snapshot
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> [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER\_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html)  
> [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqldump.html](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqldump.html)  
> [https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/11/12/logical-mysql-backup-tool-mydumper-0-9-1-now-available/](https://www.percona.com/blog/2015/11/12/logical-mysql-backup-tool-mydumper-0-9-1-now-available/)

Thanks for your support Jrivera,

We done with snapshot full backup. But we need incremental backups is there any chance to get it by using percona xtrabackup.