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How to build XtraBackup on Linux

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Prerequisites

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The following packages and tools must be installed to compile

Percona XtraBackup from source. These might vary from system to system.

In Debian-based distributions, you need to:

$ apt-get install build-essential flex bison automake autoconf bzr \

libtool cmake libaio-dev mysql-client libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev \

libgcrypt11-dev

In RPM-based distributions, you need to:

$ yum install cmake gcc gcc-c++ libaio libaio-devel automake autoconf bzr \

bison libtool ncurses5-devel

Compiling with CMake

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At the base directory of the source code tree, if you execute

$ cmake -DBUILD_CONFIG=xtrabackup_release && make -j4

and you go for a coffee, at your return XtraBackup will be ready to be used.

Installation

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The following command:

$ make install

will install all XtraBackup binaries, the innobackupex script and tests

to /usr/local/xtrabackup. You can override this either with “make

DESTDIR=... install” or by changing the installation layout with “cmake

-DINSTALL_LAYOUT=...”.