# xtrabackup-snap

**Repository Path**: mirrors_canonical/xtrabackup-snap

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: xtrabackup-snap
- **Description**: xtrabackup snap package
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-11-04
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-13

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# xtrabackup snap package

[Snap](https://snapcraft.io) package for xtrabackup open source backup tool by Percona.

## Build

```console
foo@bar:~$ snapcraft
# or
foo@bar:~$ snapcraft --use-lxd
```

## Install

```console
foo@bar:~$ sudo snap install ./xtrabackup_8.0.30-23_amd64.snap --dangerous
```

## Usage

It's necessary to manually connect the `mysql-files` interface to allow access to
read (on backup) and write (on restore) to database data directory.

```console
foo@bar:~$ sudo snap connect xtrabackup:mysql-data
```

An example script for backing up to S3 is:

```bash
USER="<user>"
PASSWORD="<password>"
S3_BUCKET="backups"
S3_PATH="$(date -Iminutes)-backup"
S3_KEY="<s3-key>"
S3_SECRET="<s3-secret>"
HOST="a.database.domain"

xtrabackup --defaults-group=mysql --no-version-check \
    --parallel=$(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo) \
    --user=${USER} \
    --password=${PASSWORD} \
    --host=${HOST} \
    --lock-ddl \
    --no-server-version-check \
    --backup \
    --stream=xbstream \
    --xtrabackup-plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin \
    --target-dir=/tmp | \
    xtrabackup.xbcloud put \
    --curl-retriable-errors=7 --insecure --storage=s3 --parallel=10 --md5 \
    --s3-bucket="$S3_BUCKET" \
    --s3-access-key=$S3_KEY \
    --s3-secret-key=$S3_SECRET \
    "$S3_PATH"
```


Refer to [official docs from Percona](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/manual.html)