# Backup and restore one database on server

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-restore-one-database-on-server/2123>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [February 25, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-restore-one-database-on-server/2123 "2011-02-25T01:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PavelVD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/pavelvd/32/6640_2.png) [@PavelVD](https://forums.percona.com/u/PavelVD)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-restore-one-database-on-server/2123/1 "2011-02-25T01:29:20Z")

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To backup some databases i use  
innobackupex-1.5.1 … --databases=LIST  
But how to restore the database server is from this archival copy, not touching the other databases on the server?

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**Author:** ![PavelVD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/pavelvd/32/6640_2.png) [@PavelVD](https://forums.percona.com/u/PavelVD)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-restore-one-database-on-server/2123/2 "2011-03-10T08:22:28Z")

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Is not it possible to restore a specific database on a server, if you can back up one database?

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**Author:** ![xaprb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xaprb](https://forums.percona.com/u/xaprb)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-restore-one-database-on-server/2123/3 "2011-03-11T21:50:54Z")

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You will need to restore manually in that case, because I do not think that innobackupex is smart enough to do it correctly.