# XtraBackup recovery point objective (RPO)

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-recovery-point-objective-rpo/3303>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [February 26, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-recovery-point-objective-rpo/3303 "2014-02-26T18:09:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jonathan/32/13818_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-recovery-point-objective-rpo/3303/1 "2014-02-26T18:09:13Z")

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Hi all,

I manage a lot of PostgreSQL and MySQL (Percona) servers on behalf of my customers.  
For PostgreSQL servers, I use Barman ( [url][http://www.pgbarman.org/[/url]](http://www.pgbarman.org/%5B/url%5D) ) to achieve a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. So in case of “big problems”, I’m sure to never lose more than 5 minutes of data.

Is it possible to achieve a RPO of 5 minutes with XtraBackup ? Currently I launch XtraBackup in incremental mode twice a day at midnight and midday, except on Sunday midday when I make a full backup.

Thank you for your help 🙂

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-recovery-point-objective-rpo/3303/2 "2014-02-27T04:21:42Z")

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Point in time recovery is works with percona xtrabackup.  
For further reading check [url][Percona XtraBackup](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/innobackupex/pit_recovery_ibk.html%5B/url%5D) & [url][Percona XtraBackup](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/xtrabackup_bin/working_with_binary_logs.html%5B/url%5D)

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jonathan/32/13818_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-recovery-point-objective-rpo/3303/3 "2014-02-28T19:00:25Z")

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Hi mirfan,

I’m not talking about point-in-time recovery (PITR) but recovery point objective (RPO).  
I need to ensure to never lose more than 5 minutes of data in case of server failure.