# innobackupex: --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf: not found

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643 "2013-04-23T09:37:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![stefank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@stefank](https://forums.percona.com/u/stefank)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643/1 "2013-04-23T09:37:45Z")

</div>

Hi.  
I get an error after executing the following command:

innobackupex --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --user=root --password=xxxx --slave-info --databases=“test” --stream=tar /var/tmp/

…  
innobackupex: Using mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.10, for FreeBSD9.0 (amd64) using 5.2  
Warning: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.  
innobackupex: Using mysql server version Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  
–defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf: not found  
innobackupex: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options

# cat /etc/my.cnf

[mysqld]  
datadir=/var/db/mysql  
default-storage-engine=innodb  
innodb\_buffer\_pool\_size=256M  
innodb\_flush\_log\_at\_trx\_commit=1  
innodb\_file\_per\_table=1  
max\_connections=200

# uname -a

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 [EMAIL=“root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu”]root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu[/EMAIL=“root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu”]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

# pkg\_info | grep xtrabackup

xtrabackup-2.0.3 OpenSource version of InnoDB backup with support of Percona

# pkg\_info | grep mysql

mysql-client-5.6.10 Multithreaded SQL database (client)  
mysql-server-5.6.10 Multithreaded SQL database (server)

What is my mistake?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gmouse](https://forums.percona.com/u/gmouse)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643/2 "2013-04-23T09:48:53Z")

</div>

Check your log files, especially apparmor.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![stefank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@stefank](https://forums.percona.com/u/stefank)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643/3 "2013-04-23T10:16:13Z")

</div>

Sorry, but where can I find the xtrabackup logs?  
There are no new log messages in  
/var/log/\*  
/var/db/mysql/\*

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gmouse](https://forums.percona.com/u/gmouse)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643/4 "2013-04-23T12:24:58Z")

</div>

apparmor should log somewhere under /var/log/\*

I have found an old bug report: [url][https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+bug/359341[/url]](https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+bug/359341%5B/url%5D)

Odd, it should have been fixed.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![stefank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@stefank](https://forums.percona.com/u/stefank)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-defaults-file-etc-my-cnf-not-found/2643/5 "2013-04-23T16:36:14Z")

</div>

My mistake was, that I used mysql-server 5.6  
I downgraded to 5.5 and it works.