# innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no 'mysqld' group in MySQL options

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-1-5-1-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/3886 "2014-11-17T05:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![dbabertrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@dbabertrand](https://forums.percona.com/u/dbabertrand)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-1-5-1-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/3886/1 "2014-11-17T05:12:25Z")

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We are getting the below error while running innobackup on a mysql 5.0.95 database. Can anybody help please?

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**Author:** ![dbabertrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@dbabertrand](https://forums.percona.com/u/dbabertrand)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-1-5-1-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/3886/2 "2014-11-17T05:14:06Z")

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[root@VTRMYSQL93 bin]# ./innobackupex-1.5.1 /home/e141027/bkp --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --user=root

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy  
and Percona Ireland Ltd 2009-2012. All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under  
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

141117 11:28:53 innobackupex-1.5.1: Starting mysql with options: --defaults-file=‘/etc/my.cnf’ --user=‘root’ --unbuffered –  
141117 11:28:53 innobackupex-1.5.1: Connected to database with mysql child process (pid=24226)  
141117 11:29:00 innobackupex-1.5.1: Connection to database server closed  
IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.  
At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex-1.5.1  
prints “completed OK!”.

innobackupex-1.5.1: Using mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.77, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86\_64) using readline 5.1  
innobackupex-1.5.1: Using mysql server version Copyright (C) 2000-2008 MySQL AB

sh: xtrabackup\_51: command not found  
innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options  
[root@VTRMYSQL93 bin]# innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’  
-bash: innobackupex-1.5.1:: command not found  
[root@VTRMYSQL93 bin]#  
[root@VTRMYSQL93 bin]# innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-1-5-1-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/3886/3 "2014-11-18T03:30:50Z")

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As per documentation described here [url][Percona XtraBackup](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.2/%5B/url%5D)

“It can back up data from InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM tables on MySQL 5.1 [1], 5.5 and 5.6 servers”

So you will require atleast MySQL 5.1

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**Author:** ![dbabertrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@dbabertrand](https://forums.percona.com/u/dbabertrand)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-1-5-1-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/3886/4 "2014-11-18T05:14:32Z")

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Sorry Xtrabackup can works fine on Mysql 5.0, the issue was that the binaries was not present in the PATH. After changing everything works well.