# Xtrabackup compatiblity with Maria 10.x (x \>=3)

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**Category:** MySQL & MariaDB\
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-compatiblity-with-maria-10-x-x-3/11478 "2021-07-22T15:10:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-compatiblity-with-maria-10-x-x-3/11478/2 "2021-07-23T14:01:22Z")

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Hi RDM,

As you mention on this link ([Percona XtraBackup Overview - MariaDB Knowledge Base](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/percona-xtrabackup-overview/#compatibility-with-mariadb-103-and-later)) , xtrabackup is not supported on MariaDB 10.3 and up. By “not supported” it means that the backup will likely fail **and you should use mariabackup instead.**

For previous versions there are a few gotchas to consider, but was still supported.

In latter versions (let’s say 10.3 and newer), MariaDB has been diverging from upstream MySQL considerably, so not only it’s no longer a drop in replacement (moving from MySQL to MariaDB might be easy, but migrating back might not).  
So as a conclusion, because of the incompatible changes and difference on internals, xtrabackup is not longer compatible with MariaDB changes in newer versions.

Regards

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