# Proper Backup Techniques?

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/proper-backup-techniques/4383 "2015-09-03T13:53:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/proper-backup-techniques/4383/4 "2015-09-04T12:43:23Z")

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Hi GreyGnome;

I guess I am unsure of what you are trying to accomplish then. Generally speaking, the backup and running of pt-table-checksum are used for separate purposes. The backup portion is fairly straight forward; you just want a valid and consistent point-in-time backup, which Xtrabackup will give you. Then when you run pt-table-checksum, you are generally making sure that the slave(s) are in-sync with the master.

So the question is, what is your intended purpose with running pt-table-checksum in this case? Is your backup on a slave, and you are wanting to check each time to make sure the slave is in-sync with the master? Or some other purpose?

-Scott

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