# xtrabackup - is it a complete replacement for innobackupex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona XtraBackup\ **Created:** [September 2, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-is-it-a-complete-replacement-for-innobackupex/5066 "2016-09-02T00:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hydrapolic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hydrapolic](https://forums.percona.com/u/hydrapolic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-is-it-a-complete-replacement-for-innobackupex/5066/1 "2016-09-02T00:58:10Z")
For some time, we’ve been using innobackupex an it works great (thanks for it). I saw that innobackup is deprecated and should be replaced with xtrabackup binary, but according to the documnetation, that could not backup anything besides InnoDB. I was thinking some other “wrapper” will be introduced, but I didn’t find anything. Today I just blindly tried out xtrabackup and it seems like it backups also frm, myisam… … 160902 06:03:38 Executing FLUSH NO\_WRITE\_TO\_BINLOG TABLES… 160902 06:03:38 Executing FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK… … 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/column\_stats.MYD to /backup/mysql/column\_stats.MYD 160902 06:03:38 [01] …done 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/column\_stats.MYI to /backup/mysql/column\_stats.MYI 160902 06:03:38 [01] …done 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/column\_stats.frm to /backup/mysql/column\_stats.frm 160902 06:03:38 [01] …done 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/columns\_priv.MYD to /backup/mysql/columns\_priv.MYD 160902 06:03:38 [01] …done 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/columns\_priv.MYI to /backup/mysql/columns\_priv.MYI 160902 06:03:38 [01] …done 160902 06:03:38 [01] Copying ./mysql/columns\_priv.frm to /backup/mysql/columns\_priv.frm … 160902 06:03:40 Executing UNLOCK TABLES 160902 06:03:40 All tables unlocked Should the documentation ([url][https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.4/xtrabackup\_bin/limitation.html[/url]](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.4/xtrabackup_bin/limitation.html%5B/url%5D)) be updated then? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ShahriyarR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@ShahriyarR](https://forums.percona.com/u/ShahriyarR)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-is-it-a-complete-replacement-for-innobackupex/5066/2 "2016-09-06T03:56:48Z")
Yes it is. Xtrabackup is a complete replacement for Innobackupex and in fact with newest version innobackupex is a symlink: ```auto [root@ps-pxb-5 bin]# ls -l total 60128 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug 31 16:46 innobackupex -> xtrabackup -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3991760 Aug 31 16:39 xbcloud -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3020 Jul 19 18:28 xbcloud_osenv -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3874930 Aug 31 16:39 xbcrypt -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3912393 Aug 31 16:39 xbstream -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 49776302 Aug 31 16:44 xtrabackup ``` I have created a doc issue to update documentation. Thank you. [URL][https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+bug/1620521[/URL]](https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+bug/1620521%5B/URL%5D)