Alternatives to Percona XtraBackup
Hot physical backup for MySQL and Percona Server. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Percona XtraBackup
Hot physical backup for MySQL and Percona Server.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Percona XtraBackup.
WAL-G
Archival backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server.
WAL-G backs up MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server directly to object storage with compression, encryption and delta backups under Apache-2.0.
Mariabackup
MariaDB's bundled hot physical backup tool.
Mariabackup ships with MariaDB and understands its encryption and compression, and runs on Windows too, but it only backs up MariaDB servers.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Barman
Backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL disaster recovery.
pgBackRest
Parallel backup and restore for PostgreSQL with delta restore.
mongodump
A MongoDB command-line tool that writes a binary BSON export of a database for backup or migration.
HeidiSQL
A long-running Windows client for MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird, small and quick.
MySQL Workbench
Oracle's desktop application for developing SQL, administering MySQL servers and analysing query performance.
