# Help on pt-table-sync

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/help-on-pt-table-sync/3963>\
**Category:** Percona Toolkit\
**Created:** [December 22, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-on-pt-table-sync/3963 "2014-12-22T10:46:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![FISH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@FISH](https://forums.percona.com/u/FISH)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-on-pt-table-sync/3963/1 "2014-12-22T10:46:01Z")

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Getting the below error.

root@cloud ~]# pt-table-sync --execute h=master, d=dummy, t=sax, h=slave

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**Author:** ![wagnerbianchi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/wagnerbianchi/32/802_2.png) [@wagnerbianchi](https://forums.percona.com/u/wagnerbianchi)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-on-pt-table-sync/3963/2 "2014-12-22T12:57:48Z")

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Before running any of the percona-toolkit tool, make sure you set the Perl environment variables on .bash\_profile as below:

export LANGUAGE=en\_US.UTF-8  
export LANG=en\_US.UTF-8  
export LC\_ALL=en\_US.UTF-8

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**Author:** ![wagnerbianchi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/wagnerbianchi/32/802_2.png) [@wagnerbianchi](https://forums.percona.com/u/wagnerbianchi)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-on-pt-table-sync/3963/3 "2014-12-23T10:13:40Z")

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Now, it seems that you’ve gotten a problem with the executed cmd; did you review the docs?

=\> [URL=“[pt-table-sync — Percona Toolkit Documentation](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-table-sync.html)”][http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-t...able-sync.html[/URL]](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-t...able-sync.html%5B/URL%5D)