# innobackupex fails innobackupex: Error: Failed to copy file 'func.frm'

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [October 9, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fails-innobackupex-error-failed-to-copy-file-func-frm/2300 "2012-10-09T17:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![mboppudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mboppudi](https://forums.percona.com/u/mboppudi)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fails-innobackupex-error-failed-to-copy-file-func-frm/2300/1 "2012-10-09T17:00:46Z")

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Hi ,

I am getting this error. backup directory permissions is wide open and running as a root user. Getting this error. is any one have over come this situation.

121009 15:15:24 innobackupex: All tables locked and flushed to disk

121009 15:15:24 innobackupex: Starting to backup .frm, .MRG, .MYD, .MYI,  
innobackupex: .TRG, .TRN, .ARM, .ARZ, .CSM, .CSV and .opt files in  
innobackupex: subdirectories of ‘/data/dvantagedb/ec’  
innobackupex: Backing up files ‘/data/dvantagedb/ec/mysql/\*.{frm,MYD,MYI,MRG,TRG,TRN,ARM,AR Z,CSM,CSV,opt,par}’ (72 files)  
cp: failed to preserve ownership for `/backup/dev\_dumps/2012-10-09\_15-07-50/mysql/func.frm’: Invalid argument  
innobackupex: Error: Failed to copy file ‘func.frm’: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 374

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**Author:** ![niljoshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/niljoshi/32/16889_2.png) [@niljoshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/niljoshi)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fails-innobackupex-error-failed-to-copy-file-func-frm/2300/2 "2012-10-11T01:02:26Z")

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Hi,

Can you share some more information like OS/Innobackex versions, ls -al output of backup dir? Are you using encryption for your backup folder?

Regards,  
Nil

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**Author:** ![mboppudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mboppudi](https://forums.percona.com/u/mboppudi)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fails-innobackupex-error-failed-to-copy-file-func-frm/2300/3 "2012-10-11T13:31:40Z")

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]# innobackupex -version  
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.

[root@db09 bin]# cat /etc/redhat-release  
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)  
[root@db09 bin]# cd /backup/2012-10-11\_11-33-16/  
[root@db09 2012-10-11\_11-33-16]# ls -al  
total 26748  
drwxr-xr-x 28 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 .  
drwxrwxrwx 16 root root 4096 Oct 11 2012 …  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 1ZXBHS  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 3S22XW  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 6HVTE1  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 8H40TL  
-rw-r–r-- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 196 Oct 11 2012 backup-my.cnf  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 BD5ACH  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 BWQEQJ  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 BZUH3A  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 C3FK8S  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 C7YXKI  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 companydb  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 DMLOHN  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 FKJNTO  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 FWVD53  
-rw-r----- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 27262976 Oct 11 2012 ibdata1  
drwxr-xr-x 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 mysql  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 PPFII0  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 QX2ZVX  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 SYST01  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 TNUHZZ  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 TVUQUW  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 UOHO9Q  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 utility  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 vta  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 WGLVAT  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 word\_press\_evgeny  
-rw-r–r-- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4 Oct 11 2012 xtrabackup\_binlog\_info  
-rw-r----- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 2048 Oct 11 2012 xtrabackup\_logfile  
-rw-r–r-- 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 Oct 11 2012 xtrabackup\_suspended  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 YMDHPR  
drwx------ 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 Oct 11 2012 YR4H4B

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**Author:** ![mboppudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mboppudi](https://forums.percona.com/u/mboppudi)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fails-innobackupex-error-failed-to-copy-file-func-frm/2300/4 "2012-10-12T15:11:39Z")

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Thank you for the information. database size is 1 gb I am not getting the error. The one I have problem is 9.2 GB database

Thanks,  
Madhu