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Install from a binary tarball

Binary tarballs contain precompiled executable files, libraries, and other dependencies and are compressed tar archives. Extract the binary tarballs to any path.

Download the binary tarballs from the Linux - Generic section on Percona Product Downloads.

The following example downloads the a tarball:

$ wget https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-{{vers}}/Percona-XtraBackup-{{release}}/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-{{release}}-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz

The output displays the following information:

Expected output
--2023-10-20 05:56:30--  https://downloads.percona.com/downloads/Percona-XtraBackup-{{vers}}/Percona-XtraBackup-{{release}}/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-{{release}}-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz
Resolving downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)... 2604:2dc0:200:69f::2, 147.135.54.159
Connecting to downloads.percona.com (downloads.percona.com)|2604:2dc0:200:69f::2|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 470358258 (449M) [application/gzip]
Saving to: ‘percona-xtrabackup-{{release}}-Linux-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz’

percona-xtrabackup   0%[                       ]   3.17M  1.54MB/s

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