# Innobackupex windows version Invalid version format (non-numeric data) **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona XtraBackup\ **Created:** [December 19, 2011, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-windows-version-invalid-version-format-non-numeric-data/2193 "2011-12-19T09:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fineman8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@fineman8](https://forums.percona.com/u/fineman8)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-windows-version-invalid-version-format-non-numeric-data/2193/1 "2011-12-19T09:45:45Z")
hi I did the following 1. downloaded - [http://www.percona.com/redir/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup -1.6/Windows-alpha/64bit/xtrabackup-1.6.64bit.zip](http://www.percona.com/redir/downloads/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.6/Windows-alpha/64bit/xtrabackup-1.6.64bit.zip) 2. environment- windows server 2008 R2 Datacenter, 64Bit operating system, Active pearl 5.12.4.1205 3 Execute Innobackupex - $ “C:/Program Files/xtrabackup-1.6.64bit/innobackupex.pl” --defaults-file=“C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQLInstance2/my.ini” --user=root --password=admin D:/Xtrabackup/13306\_1 1. response - Invalid version format (non-numeric data) at C:/Program Files/xtrabackup-1.6.64bit/innobackupex.pl line 1780. Line 1780 # check the version of the perl we are running if (!defined $^V) { # this perl is prior to 5.6.0 and uses old style version string my $required\_version = $required\_perl\_version\_old\_style; if ($] lt $required\_version) { print STDERR "$prefix Warning: " . “Your perl is too old! Innobackup requires\n”; print STDERR “$prefix Warning: perl $required\_version or newer!\n”; } } else { $perl\_version = chr($required\_perl\_version[0]) . chr($required\_perl\_version[1]) . chr($required\_perl\_version[2]); if ($^V lt $perl\_version) { my $version = chr(48 + $required\_perl\_version[0]) . “.” . chr(48 + $required\_perl\_version[1]) . “.” . chr(48 + $required\_perl\_version[2]); print STDERR "$prefix Warning: " . “Your perl is too old! Innobackup requires\n”; print STDERR “$prefix Warning: perl $version or newer!\n”; } } Question has anybody any idea as to what i should do? is there any known pearl version that works with the software on windows? ---
**Author:** ![xaprb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xaprb](https://forums.percona.com/u/xaprb)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-windows-version-invalid-version-format-non-numeric-data/2193/2 "2011-12-19T13:50:50Z")
That is an old bug that has been fixed since then. Check the bug reports on launchpad for the fix. ---
**Author:** ![fineman8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@fineman8](https://forums.percona.com/u/fineman8)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innobackupex-windows-version-invalid-version-format-non-numeric-data/2193/3 "2011-12-20T06:51:23Z")
thanks baron i have gone to the link [http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dveeden/percona-xtrabackup/lp48](http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dveeden/percona-xtrabackup/lp48) 3827/download/head:/innobackup1.5.1-20090305061108-fxjvmhr91 4de7q81-1/innobackupex and downloaded the version there and the problem has stopped