How to build XtraBackup ======================= !!You need to build the MySQL binaries before building XtraBackup!! 1. Build your version of mysql 2. copy the xtrabackup source directory into the mysql.5x/innobase directory (e.g. mysql-5.0.75/innobase/xtrabackup-0.0 ) 3. For 5.1x you need to apply a patch. From the innobase directory, apply the xtrabackup patch. e.g. #patch -p2 < xtrabackup-0.0/fix_innodb_for_backup51.patch (With 5.0 run 'make clean all' from the innobase directory This is necessary for 5.0, because of the lack of dependencies) 4.Run make [5.0] [5.1] [xtradb] [plugin] in the XtraBackup directory. 5. enjoy... :