# Empty backup with innobackupex

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/empty-backup-with-innobackupex/4496>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/empty-backup-with-innobackupex/4496 "2015-11-05T09:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mattiarigotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mattiarigotti](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mattiarigotti)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/empty-backup-with-innobackupex/4496/1 "2015-11-05T09:19:59Z")

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Hello,  
I’m trying to create a full backup of my mysql database. It’s made of a mix of Innodb and Myisam tables.  
When I run the command:  
innobackupex --user=bkpuser --password=‘pwd’ /tmp/BACKUP/  
the program does his thing and creates the timestamped directory.  
It ends with “innobackupex: completed OK!”  
But inside there are only empty directories and the ib\_logfile and ibdata files.

When I try to restore it, it obviously generates empty databases.

What could cause this behaviour? I found no similar questions anywhere!

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/empty-backup-with-innobackupex/4496/2 "2015-11-06T23:33:10Z")

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How are you restoring the backup? Can you provide the full backup log when you ran the innobackupex command? We will need more details.