# Setting up a development environment

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment/3134>\
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x\
**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment/3134 "2013-12-04T10:15:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jreiners](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jreiners/32/961_2.png) [@jreiners](https://forums.percona.com/u/jreiners)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment/3134/1 "2013-12-04T10:15:22Z")

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We have a current XtraDB Cluster of 7 nodes

what i would like to do is set up another cluster of 3 that is for development/testing that is one way synced with production. Is there any way I can do with with Percona Xtradb? I figure someone out there in TV land has a setup like this, just cant for the life of me figure out how to set it up. Any clue x 4’s would be appreciated! thanks.

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**Author:** ![przemek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/przemek/32/3_2.png) [@przemek](https://forums.percona.com/u/przemek)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/setting-up-a-development-environment/3134/2 "2013-12-12T09:15:01Z")

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You can still use MySQL asynchronous replication to feed dev cluster from production cluster. Just enable binary logging on one of the production nodes, then create a consistent backup from this node to use for provisioning first dev node. You have to enable log\_slave\_updates on slave dev node in order to properly replicate into it’s cluster.