# 8.0 - --galera-info --no-backup-locks does not create xtrabackup\_galera\_info

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263 "2020-11-10T18:03:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![aalba6675](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@aalba6675](https://forums.percona.com/u/aalba6675)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263/1 "2020-11-10T18:03:07Z")

</div>

1. Is innobackupex deprecated for 8.0?

2. Doing xtrabackup with --galera-info --no-backup-locks does not create the xtrabackup\_galera\_info file.

Bigger question: is manual SST viable? I.e. create a backup on DONOR

xtrabackup --backup --galera-info --no-backup-locks

# assuming this works, but I couldn’t find xtrabackup\_galera\_info…

Transfer backup directory to putative JOINER, prep, copy-back then attempt to join cluster.

MariaDB still has a manual SST article, but I didn’t find anything similar for PXC.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Altmann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/marcelo_altmann/32/11299_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Altmann](https://forums.percona.com/u/Marcelo_Altmann)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263/2 "2020-11-11T08:05:14Z")

</div>

1. Yes, innobackupex has been deprecated on 2.4 and completely removed on 8.0
2. That is still possible. File is created at --prepare phase:

[root@marcelo–pxc-2 ~]# cat /tmp/backup/xtrabackup\_info | grep version

tool\_version = 8.0.13

ibbackup\_version = 8.0.13

server\_version = 8.0.20-11.3

[root@marcelo–pxc-2 ~]# cat /tmp/backup/xtrabackup\_galera\_info

0fb0c479-2422-11eb-bb57-23a730de0c57:10

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![aalba6675](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@aalba6675](https://forums.percona.com/u/aalba6675)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263/3 "2020-11-11T08:24:21Z")

</div>

Thank you! Can I confirm that --no-backup-locks is needed for --galera-info/manual SST to work?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Altmann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/marcelo_altmann/32/11299_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Altmann](https://forums.percona.com/u/Marcelo_Altmann)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/8-0-galera-info-no-backup-locks-does-not-create-xtrabackup-galera-info/8263/4 "2020-11-11T12:44:59Z")

</div>

You don’t need --no-backup-locks for it to work. However, I would advise you to use --lock-ddl to block DDLs while taking the backup.