# How to initialize a new cluster from a S3 backup?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-initialize-a-new-cluster-from-a-s3-backup/7987>\
**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-initialize-a-new-cluster-from-a-s3-backup/7987 "2020-09-01T09:29:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 9

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ajay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ajay/32/5888_2.png) [@ajay](https://forums.percona.com/u/ajay)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-initialize-a-new-cluster-from-a-s3-backup/7987/9 "2022-03-29T15:56:05Z")

</div>

Hi @Ivan_Pylypenko -below is my back.yaml file and i checked the logs for the backup job and it is taking the latest backup from s3 and creating a backup in cluster.  
`apiVersion: [pxc.percona.com/v1](http://pxc.percona.com/v1)  
kind: PerconaXtraDBClusterBackup  
metadata:

# finalizers:

# - delete-s3-backup

name: backup5  
spec:  
pxcCluster: pxc-db  
storageName: s3-us-east  
status:  
completed: “2022-03-14T-00:00:00Z”  
destination: s3://percona-backups-release-ops/backups/pxc-db-2022-03-14-00:00:00-full  
s3:  
bucket: s3://percona-backups-release-ops/backups  
credentialsSecret: pxc-db-s3-s3-us-east  
endpointUrl: [https://s3.amazonaws.com](https://s3.amazonaws.com)  
region: us-east-1  
state: Succeeded  
storageName: s3-us-east`

and upon apply this backup is creating with latest “backup5 pxc-db s3-us-east s3://percona-backups-release-ops/backups/pxc-db-2022-03-29-15:49:28-full Starting 3s”.

so, how can i point it to a specific date since it is creating the backup with latest ? please suggest me here. Thank you.  
[backuppodlogs.txt](https://forums.percona.com/uploads/short-url/t9QB4lAuAAmRHBMADzzM6MU4p56.txt) (73.0 KB)

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-initialize-a-new-cluster-from-a-s3-backup/7987)._