# Percona XtraBackup Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Percona XtraBackup Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Backup products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/205293/Percona-XtraBackup-por-MySQL --- # Percona XtraBackup Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on August 24, 2025 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Percona XtraBackup ## What is Percona XtraBackup? Percona XtraBackup is a free, open-source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and HailDB storage engines on transactional systems, so that applications remain fully available during planned maintenance windows. Percona XtraBackup can perform streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. ## What is Percona XtraBackup used for? [Backup](https://www.capterra.com/backup-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 15 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... 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[4.6 (1,199)](https://www.capterra.com/p/171884/IDrive/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.6 (15) Ease Of Use 4.5 (1,199) Value For Money 4.9 (13) Value For Money 4.7 (1,037) Customer Service 4.3 (11) Customer Service 4.5 (724) ## Percona XtraBackup alternatives [4.7 (217)](https://www.capterra.com/p/163343/Backup-and-Recovery/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing [4.7 (94)](https://www.capterra.com/p/155742/CloudAlly/reviews/) Starting price $1.50 Per User, Per Month Highest Rated [Salesforce Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/265572/Salesforce-Backup/) [4.8 (80)](https://www.capterra.com/p/265572/Salesforce-Backup/reviews/) Starting price $3.00 Per User, Per Month [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/265572/Salesforce-Backup/) [SqlBak](https://www.capterra.com/p/227840/SqlBak/) [4.8 (44)](https://www.capterra.com/p/227840/SqlBak/reviews/) Starting price $6.00 Per User, Per Month [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/227840/SqlBak/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/205293/Percona-XtraBackup-for-MySQL/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Compression 5.0 (2) 50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Reduction in the number of bits needed to represent data Encryption 5.0 (2) 50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Convert data into a code for security Incremental Backup 5.0 (2) 50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Copy only the new data that has been changed or created since the previous backup Backup Log 5.0 (1) 0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Records the events that occur during a backup process Cloud Backup 5.0 (1) 0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Process of backing up of files and applications to cloud-based remote servers for protection of data Secure Data Storage Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches Percona XtraBackup 7 features Records the events that occur during a backup process Process of backing up of files and applications to cloud-based remote servers for protection of data Reduction in the number of bits needed to represent data Convert data into a code for security Copy only the new data that has been changed or created since the previous backup Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches Web Access/Restoration Features 4.8 (15) 4.8 Based on 15 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.9 (13) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 4.9 (13) 4.9 Based on 13 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.3 (11) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.3 (11) 4.3 Based on 11 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.8 Based on 15 reviews Filter by rating 5(12) 4(3) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent DG Dawson G. Network and Systems Administrator Hospital & Health Care ### "Great for Live & Incremental Backups, Takes Time to Master Arguments" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 5, 2025 Pros The main selling point for me was the non-pausing DB backups, as well as being able to do incremental backups. Xtrabackup has been incredibly helpful when it comes to recreating replica servers as its able to stream the backup to another server without needing to allocate that space on the main server itself. Cons XtraBackup as a tool is very well thought out. Sometimes its hard to remember what flags/arguments to pass when running it, but Percona has excellent documentation on how to utilize the tool for various different scenarios Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Intern Computer Software ### "Amazing Backup" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 3, 2021 it is very easy to manage with all functionalities at once and it has amazing availability Xtrabackup. Everyone should use this Percona Xtrabackup without even thinking once, overall experience 100/100. Pros It has extremely good backup restore with consistency. Ease to manage all the streaming options at the time of consultancy properly. It is the one-stop solution for all the backups we need on time. It has no disturbance will making backup interference at moments. Easy to operate, relevant to work, and fastest to load. Cons No cons for this as you are getting everything free of what you can expect more along with excellent features. Reasons for choosing Percona XtraBackup It has extremely good backup restore with consistency. Ease to manage all the streaming options at the time of consultancy properly. It is the one-stop solution for all the backups we need on time. It has no disturbance will making backup interference at moments. Easy to operate, relevant to work, and fastest to load. it is very easy to manage with all functionalities at once and it has amazing availability Xtrabackup. Everyone should use this Percona Xtrabackup without even thinking once, overall experience 100/100. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Rutam Prita M. Software Developer Information Technology and Services ### "A Backup that really Backs you UP !" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 May 9, 2021 Percona XtraBackup has made our infra lighter and easier in terms of handling the MySQL server backups and provided us with all the reliability and precision we expected. We really didn't regret evaluating Xtrabackup and it's worth using for all its features and affordable prices. Pros XtraBackup has delivered on its promise since it launched in the market. Being a large enterprise, we have deployments and production on various public clouds and we believe in Hybrid infra. XtraBackup has been a great solution for our MySQL-based servers. While evaluating the product we were really impressed with its appealing features like compression, streaming, parallelism. And one of the best parts is that it supports incremental backups. We have loads of VMs running and with slight configurations, we can easily trigger XtraBackup to do its job. Percona has even open-sourced its products which offers great scope for its features to be enhanced as the larger community would always keep contributing to it. Lastly, the customer support and the community is always there to resolve your queries and help you use them hassle-free. Cons XtraBackup has really lived up to its expectation during evaluation and served its purpose perfectly fine and we are yet to find any cons in it. Alternatives considered [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/) Reasons for choosing Percona XtraBackup We believe in open source and this was a major reason to opt for something that's open-sourced already. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. KK KARTHICK KUMAR N. Senior consultant Computer Software ### "XtraBackup" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 8, 2021 It wil help to take back-up on more than 1TB size. Pros It's easily we can take back-up on MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Cons Yes, I am trying to use MongoDB community version but failed to use XtraBackup. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. US Udbhav S. Analyst Information Technology and Services ### "Online Backup Solution" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 29, 2020 Pros Fast and reliable backup, fast in processing as compared to the others, uninterrupted transaction backup Cons Offline Backup is not there and backup history table also Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. HS Helio S. performance analyst Telecommunications ### "Enteprise grade software for free" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 25, 2020 It was great, I was a consultant for the first time I started using it. So I was able to deliver a great outcomes to my customer. Pros I think the way they make MySQL backup easy. Also more than making it simples, they make it "trustful". Cons Sometimes the support for some issues, it's too restricted, and it makes right since the support is paid. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. ID Igor D. DBC Information Technology and Services ### "Igor's review of Xtrabackup" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 22, 2020 Pros The best thing about xtrabackup is that one can take hot backup from a running database without locking. It can also run incremental backups and encrypted backups. Restores can be a matter of minutes. Cons Sometimes in between major MySQL version upgrades, older version of xtrabackup might start failing in taking the backups and it's not straightforward what is the source of the problem. Errors and exceptions using the product could be improved Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MC Mark C. Lead Architect Internet ### "Awesome software" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 15, 2020 Pros This is not the type of software you can just ignore or walk past, if you have a mysql/percona/mariadb database of any size you need to get this software. It's by far the best way to back up your database. Cons You can't restore just one table. You have to restore the entire db but with a bit of shell scripting you can sort of accomplish this. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DM Diego M. G. Database Engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Best Mysql Backup tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 October 14, 2020 I've been using Percona XtraBackup for a almost 1 year now, along with pt-online-schema-change both tools are incredibly useful for Admins. Pros \* Performance(Backup speed) \* Non-Blocking. Cons I don't find any particular downsize of this tool- Reasons for choosing Percona XtraBackup Budget. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MS Miklos S. DBA Education Management ### "XtraBackup for the win" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 12, 2020 We can take a backup or deploy new machines using another one as a source without any interruption. It never failed us. Pros It's easy to use, reliable and robust. Cons Parallel streaming (up and download) of the files to and from the cloud (s3) would be a great feature. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/205293/Percona-XtraBackup-for-MySQL/reviews/) Independent research methodology Capterra's researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. 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