# Newbie question on Percona server and Xtrabackup

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/newbie-question-on-percona-server-and-xtrabackup/4700>\
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/newbie-question-on-percona-server-and-xtrabackup/4700 "2016-02-04T13:09:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevejohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@stevejohnson](https://forums.percona.com/u/stevejohnson)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/newbie-question-on-percona-server-and-xtrabackup/4700/1 "2016-02-04T13:09:21Z")

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Hello,  
I just heard about Percona, and saw it’s benchmarks against Mysql, and i’m very impressed.  
Following are the things i’d like to do to my VPS -

1.) Upgrade Mysql to Percona server  
2.) Use Percona XtraBackup to perform Hot Backups

I found this amazing article on digitalocean to upgrade to Percona - [url][https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-a-fresh-percona-server-or-replace-mysql[/url]](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-a-fresh-percona-server-or-replace-mysql%5B/url%5D)  
I’m a little confused in using Xtrabackup on a percona server … are there any tutorials specific to perform Xtrabackup on Percona server, rather than a MySql server?

Your help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

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**Author:** ![stevejohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@stevejohnson](https://forums.percona.com/u/stevejohnson)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/newbie-question-on-percona-server-and-xtrabackup/4700/2 "2016-02-12T14:05:23Z")

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…anyone?