# Pt-Archiver for a Total Idiot

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**Category:** Percona Toolkit\
**Created:** [July 4, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-for-a-total-idiot/6441 "2018-07-04T06:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghostpom12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@ghostpom12](https://forums.percona.com/u/ghostpom12)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-for-a-total-idiot/6441/1 "2018-07-04T06:38:21Z")

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02-20-2016, 08:24 AM  
I’m a total idiot, or at least you can treat me like one when it comes to pt-achrciver.  
I’ve downloaded the tar.gz file and unpacked it. So as of now its just sitting in a directory on my harddrive with a vacant look on its face. From the documentation I see that I also need Perl so I downloaded that too and installed that too, in the C:\perl64. I’m running mySQL 5.6 on windows 64bit and use it via mySQL workbench, which I really like. I have little experience with mySQL apart from writing queries and generally messing up the database. So, my question is - how in gods name do I use pt-Archiver?

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**Author:** ![lorraine.pocklington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lorraine.pocklington/32/37_2.png) [@lorraine.pocklington](https://forums.percona.com/u/lorraine.pocklington)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-for-a-total-idiot/6441/2 "2018-07-04T07:05:18Z")

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Hello [ghostpom12](https://www.percona.com/forums/member/42142-ghostpom12) welcome to the Forum and thank you for making me smile with your self-deprecating post. I hope that was the intention 😃

OK, first of all to say that the toolkit is written for Linux and not Windows, and is a command line tool. Nevertheless I understand it’s possible to run at least some of the commands in a Windows environment if you use a product such as Cygwin for the cli. There is a 30 minute webinar here that might help with that a little [URL=“[Videos from Percona](https://www.percona.com/resources/mysql-videos/mysql-windows-survival-guide-linux-based-dbas)”][https://www.percona.com/resources/my...nux-based-dbas[/URL]](https://www.percona.com/resources/my...nux-based-dbas%5B/URL%5D) you have to sign in for access but it’s otherwise freely available.

However, a quick look at the slides shows it doesn’t cover pt-archiver specifically. Before I go off and see if I can find out more about the possibilities of using Percona Toolkit in Windows, can I just check what you are wanting to achieve just in case we might have another approach.

Also, just to say have a browse of our resources area of [percona.com](http://percona.com) as there are LOTS of good resources there, including a plethora of past webinars. You might find some of them useful.

THANKS!