How to setup a slave for replication in 6 simple steps with Percona XtraBackup Data is, by far, the most valuable part of a system. Having a backup done systematically and available for a rapid recovery in case of failure is admittedly essential to a system. However, it is not common practice because of its costs, infrastructure needed or even the boredom associated to the task. Percona XtraBackup is designed to solve this problem. You can have almost real-time backups in 6 simple steps by setting up a replication environment with Percona XtraBackup . Percona XtraBackup is a tool for backing up your data extremely easy and without interruption. It performs “hot backups” on unmodified versions of MySQL servers (5.1, 5.5 and 5.6), as well as MariaDB and Percona Servers . It is a totally free and open source software distributed only under the GPLv2 license. All the things you will need Setting up a slave...