# For help:Innobackupex-apply-log
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/for-help-innobackupex-apply-log/2212
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup
**Created:** [February 28, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/for-help-innobackupex-apply-log/2212 "2012-02-28T01:27:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@leeinuz](https://forums.percona.com/u/leeinuz)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/for-help-innobackupex-apply-log/2212/1 "2012-02-28T01:27:42Z")
hi,everybody.
innobackupex --user=root --password= --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --apply-log /db\_backup/db/
InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
and Percona Inc 2009-2012. All Rights Reserved.
This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.
option\_ibbackup\_binary is autodetect, trying to connect to MySQL
Connected to MySQL with pid 2459
Failed to connect to MySQL server to detect version.
You must set xtrabackup version to use with --ibbackup option.
Possible values are xtrabackup\_51 (for MySQL 5.0 and 5.1) or xtrabackup (for MySQL 5.1 with InnoDB plugin or Percona Server)
option\_ibbackup\_binary is autodetect, trying to connect to MySQL
Connected to MySQL with pid 2459
Failed to connect to MySQL server to detect version.
> > > why?
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### Author:  [@xaprb](https://forums.percona.com/u/xaprb)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2012, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/for-help-innobackupex-apply-log/2212/2 "2012-02-28T09:40:32Z")
That looks like a bug. Please search the Launchpad bug tracker to see if it’s already been reported and/or fixed, and report it if not. It is quite possible that the new release of XtraBackup yesterday includes a fix for this.
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### Author:  [@leeinuz](https://forums.percona.com/u/leeinuz)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/for-help-innobackupex-apply-log/2212/3 "2012-03-04T23:32:57Z")
thank you for your help