# Will xtrabackup compiled against Percona-Server work with standard mysql-server?

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [May 10, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/will-xtrabackup-compiled-against-percona-server-work-with-standard-mysql-server/2145 "2011-05-10T17:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdutta777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@pdutta777](https://forums.percona.com/u/pdutta777)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/will-xtrabackup-compiled-against-percona-server-work-with-standard-mysql-server/2145/1 "2011-05-10T17:15:00Z")

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General question. If I compile xtrabackup against the Percona-Server source code base, will that same binary be usable with a standard mysql server 5.1 setup with the innodb plugin?

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**Author:** ![xaprb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xaprb](https://forums.percona.com/u/xaprb)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/will-xtrabackup-compiled-against-percona-server-work-with-standard-mysql-server/2145/2 "2011-05-30T04:48:46Z")

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Yes. But don’t compile it yourself. Use the precompiled binaries. It makes it a lot easier to determine where the problem is, should you experience any troubles, if we don’t have to guess that you compiled something wrong. Also, the xtrabackup source code is not designed to compile against all versions of MySQL source code, only specific versions (although the resulting binary will work on more than just that version).