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MySQL & MariaDB Other MySQL® Questions
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Folks,

Our production is running Mysql and Percona for some time now.
I am rather new to Percona and trynig to setup a dev box where I don’t need all the databases we have in production but just some of them.

In production Percona makes a FULL.0 file which dumps all the databases.

How can I change that to only make a backup of a few databases??

Being DBA for other systems for a long time I can only imagine how dumb do I sound…

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Hi,

For taking a backup of selective databases, you can use mostly two utilities.

  1. mysqldump ([URL]http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqldump.html[/URL])
  2. xtrabackup ([URL]Percona XtraBackup)

If database size is small then mysqldump option is useful otherwise you should go with xtrabackup. Please refer above pages and let us know if you face any issue.

Btw: for selecting specific databases for dump, you can use " -B, --databases" option with mysqldump and for doing the same thing with xtrabackup you can use “–include=‘^(db1|db2|db3|mysql). *’” option with regex.