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

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/5485 "2017-03-15T23:31:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jethan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jethan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Jethan)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/5485/1 "2017-03-15T23:31:45Z")

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Dear Team,

I have downloaded “percona-xtrabackup-2.0.0” and wanted to setup in different directory rather than /bin. From that directory location I’ve executed the below command

“./innobackupex --user=root --password=xxxxxxxx --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --export --slave-info /test\_dir/hot\_backups/”

ERROR Message was :

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

170316 04:08:57 innobackupex: Starting mysql with options: --defaults-file=‘/etc/my.cnf’ --password=xxxxxxxx --user=‘root’ --unbuffered –  
170316 04:08:57 innobackupex: Connected to database with mysql child process (pid=17868)  
170316 04:09:03 innobackupex: Connection to database server closed  
IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.  
At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex  
prints “completed OK!”.

innobackupex: Using mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.73, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86\_64) using readline 5.1  
innobackupex: Using mysql server version Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

sh: xtrabackup\_51: command not found  
innobackupex: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options  
innobackupex: fatal error: OR no ‘datadir’ option in group ‘mysqld’ in MySQL options

How can I solve this. Please Help!!

Thanks in Advance

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-fatal-error-no-mysqld-group-in-mysql-options/5485/2 "2017-03-15T23:52:12Z")

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I’d suggest you to download the latest versions of Xtrabackup 2.3 or 2.4 series here -  
[url][Download Percona XtraBackup 8.0](https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-2.3.7/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-2.3.7-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz%5B/url%5D)  
[url][Download Percona XtraBackup 8.0](https://www.percona.com/downloads/XtraBackup/Percona-XtraBackup-2.4.6/binary/tarball/percona-xtrabackup-2.4.6-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz%5B/url%5D)

Extract the files and run the innobackupex command.

Just to note, the --export option works in conjunction with --apply-log and not during backup creation phase. Please read the manual on how to use it - [url][Percona XtraBackup](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.3/howtos/recipes_ibkx_partition.html%5B/url%5D)