# xtrabackup or innobackupex

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-or-innobackupex/4603>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [December 14, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-or-innobackupex/4603 "2015-12-14T17:24:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![johntest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@johntest](https://forums.percona.com/u/johntest)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-or-innobackupex/4603/1 "2015-12-14T17:24:14Z")

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Sorry about the newbie question but I am wondering which command to use. I have been reading and it seems innobackupex is a perl wrapper for xtrabackup.  
Also it says in manual that innobackupex will be deprecated. So should I just be using xtrabackup command?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-or-innobackupex/4603/2 "2015-12-16T00:17:36Z")

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You can still use innobackupex even on 2.3.3 (latest).