# InnoDB: No valid checkpoint found.

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-no-valid-checkpoint-found/2281>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [September 2, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-no-valid-checkpoint-found/2281 "2012-09-02T18:48:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![aphawolf31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@aphawolf31](https://forums.percona.com/u/aphawolf31)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-no-valid-checkpoint-found/2281/1 "2012-09-02T18:48:44Z")

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Hello, i experience the following error, how to resolve this issue:

xtrabackup: Target instance is assumed as followings.xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_home\_dir = ./xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_file\_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextendxtrabackup: innodb\_log\_group\_home\_dir = ./xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_files\_in\_group = 2xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_file\_size = 209715200xtrabackup: using O\_DIRECTInnoDB: No valid checkpoint found.InnoDB: If this error appears when you are creating an InnoDB database,InnoDB: the problem may be that during an earlier attempt you managedInnoDB: to create the InnoDB data files, but log file creation failed.InnoDB: If that is the case, please refer toInnoDB: [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/error-creating-innodb.htmlinnobackupex:](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/error-creating-innodb.htmlinnobackupex:) Error: ibbackup child process has died at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 374.

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**Author:** ![jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jaime](https://forums.percona.com/u/jaime)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-no-valid-checkpoint-found/2281/2 "2012-09-02T20:29:08Z")

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Hello,  
Can you provide the version of xtrabackup you are using and the complete command you used to run xtrabackup? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![aphawolf31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@aphawolf31](https://forums.percona.com/u/aphawolf31)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-no-valid-checkpoint-found/2281/3 "2012-09-03T05:52:41Z")

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Yes sure.  
here is the command i ran:

innobackupex --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --user=\*\*\*\*\* --password=\*\*\*\*\* --databases=database12 /backup

xtrabackup version:

xtrabackup version 2.0.2 for Percona Server 5.1.59 unknown-linux-gnu (x86\_64) (revision id: 461)

mysql version:

Server version: 5.1.63-cll MySQL